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WARDELL LESTER ARMSTRONG
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
December 13, 1949 – October 9, 1968
Service recordWardell Lester Armstrong, of Glasgow, Kentucky, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on October 9, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 41W, Line 33 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41W · Line 33
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Machinegunner (0331)
- Born
- December 13, 1949
- Home of record
- Glasgow, Kentucky (Barren County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 9, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date October 9, 1968; nine of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 41W, Line 33
- ROBERT LEE URBANPrivate First Class · October 8, 1968
- LARRY WILLIAM WATSONPrivate First Class · October 8, 1968
- DANIEL EARL WINTERSPrivate First Class · October 8, 1968
- WILLIAM EVERETT WYROSDICCorporal · October 8, 1968
From Glasgow
- MURREL D THOMASStaff Sergeant · May 22, 1965
- STEPHEN EVANS THOMASSpecialist Four · May 6, 1966
- KENNETH WALTER PICKETTStaff Sergeant · May 17, 1966
- JAMES EDWARD KIRNSergeant · March 16, 1967
- ALBERT DOUGLAS SMITHPrivate First Class · August 20, 1968
- DOUGLAS COMPTONSpecialist Five · October 11, 1968
- REX DOUGLAS HARLOWCorporal · June 30, 1969
- EDWARD LEO KINGREYSpecialist Four · July 14, 1969
- JOHN SPENCER BAILEY JRPrivate First Class · July 22, 1969
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.