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WARDELL PERKINS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
June 21, 1947 – December 16, 1968
Service recordWardell Perkins, of Gordo, Alabama, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 16, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 30 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36W · Line 30
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. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- June 21, 1947
- Home of record
- Gordo, Alabama (Pickens County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 16, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
20 names on the Wall carry the date December 16, 1968; he was the only one lost in Tây Ninh Province that day. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 106 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 36W, Line 30
- GARY WAYNE GROSSSpecialist Four · December 16, 1968
- CHARLES LEROY KNEECEPetty Officer Third Class · December 16, 1968
- ZYGMUNT KOWALEWSKISergeant First Class · December 16, 1968
- JAMES MICHAEL LUDWIGPrivate First Class · December 16, 1968
Same unit, same day
- MICHAEL RICHARD BISHOPPrivate First Class · Panel 36W, Line 28
- GARY WAYNE GROSSSpecialist Four · Panel 36W, Line 30
From Gordo
- LARRY EDWARD GRACEPetty Officer Third Class · July 29, 1967
- JOHN THERON BECKPrivate · February 24, 1968
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.