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WAYNE MICHAEL RANDALL
Private First Class · U.S. Army
December 10, 1948 – April 17, 1969
Service recordWayne Michael Randall, of Passumpsic, Vermont, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 17, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 103 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27W · Line 103
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- December 10, 1948
- Home of record
- Passumpsic, Vermont (Caledonia County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 17, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
35 names on the Wall carry the date April 17, 1969; six of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 26 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 27W, Line 103
- CHARLES FRANCIS PREVEDELSergeant First Class · April 17, 1969
- CHARLES DAVID ROBINSONSpecialist Four · April 17, 1969
- WILLIAM HOYT SMITHPrivate First Class · April 17, 1969
- ROBERT VINCENT WILLETT JRMajor · April 17, 1969
Same unit, same day
- JAMES W PATTERSON JRSpecialist Four · Panel 27W, Line 102
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.