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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Wayne Hyde.

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WAYNE HYDE

Private · U.S. Marine Corps

August 31, 1945 – June 4, 1966

Service record

Wayne Hyde, of Sikeston, Missouri, served as a Private in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 4, 1966, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 8E, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 8E · Line 6

Position of Panel 8E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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 (PVT)
Service
Regular
Unit (as recorded)
B CO 1 AT BN 1 MARDIV
Born
August 31, 1945
Home of record
Sikeston, Missouri (Multiple County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 4, 1966
Age
20
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

20 names on the Wall carry the date June 4, 1966; five of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In June 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “B CO 1 AT BN 1 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 8E, Line 6

Same unit, same day

From Sikeston

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.