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WAYLEN LEE POWELL
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 24, 1945 – July 4, 1967
Service recordWaylen Lee Powell, of Lubbock, Texas, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 4, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 23E · Line 6
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Field Illumination Crewman (17E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- G BTRY 29 ARTY I FF
- Born
- October 24, 1945
- Home of record
- Lubbock, Texas (Lubbock County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 4, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
49 names on the Wall carry the date July 4, 1967; 20 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “G BTRY 29 ARTY I FF”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 23E, Line 6
- ROBERT JOE OVERMYERLance Corporal · July 4, 1967
- GEORGE ALEXANDER PACECorporal · July 4, 1967
- ARNOLD RALPH PALMERPrivate First Class · July 4, 1967
- FRANK MARTIN PIETRASLance Corporal · July 4, 1967
Same unit, same day
- ANDREAS MCCURRYSpecialist Four · Panel 23E, Line 4
- ARNOLD RALPH PALMERPrivate First Class · Panel 23E, Line 6
From Lubbock
- CHARLES DON WITTLieutenant · May 24, 1967
- JACK ALBERT BERRYLance Corporal · September 4, 1967
- JOE LOVATO JRSpecialist Four · October 17, 1967
- JOSE LOUIS MORENOPrivate First Class · November 29, 1967
- WADE E THACKREY JRCorporal · February 15, 1968
- FREDRIC CECIL MCCASKILLPrivate First Class · June 19, 1968
- ROBERT JOSEPH WRIGHTPrivate First Class · September 5, 1968
- CLIFFORD WAYNE FIESZELLieutenant Colonel · September 30, 1968
- RAYMOND MARSHALL TANNERSpecialist Five · October 27, 1968
- JAMES SAMUEL ALLISONPrivate First Class · October 31, 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.