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WAYNE JACKSON VESSELL
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
May 6, 1944 – July 14, 1968
Service recordWayne Jackson Vessell, of Senoia, Georgia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 14, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 52W, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 52W · Line 32
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
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- May 6, 1944
- Home of record
- Senoia, Georgia (Coweta County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 14, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date July 14, 1968; six of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 52W, Line 32
- STEVEN JOSEPH SCOTTLance Corporal · July 14, 1968
- SAMUEL THOMAS SMITH JRLance Corporal · July 14, 1968
- RICHARD BERRY TAYLORPrivate First Class · July 14, 1968
- CLAYTON DAVIS WRIGHTSpecialist Four · July 14, 1968
From Senoia
- ROBERT EDWARD COUCHSergeant · December 30, 1968
- WILLIAM HENRY THOMAS JRLance Corporal · March 25, 1970
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.