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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Wayne Roger Adams.

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WAYNE ROGER ADAMS

Sergeant · U.S. Army

July 13, 1948 – November 16, 1967

Service record

Wayne Roger Adams, of Dayton, Ohio, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 16, 1967, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 29E, Line 103 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 29E · Line 103

Position of Panel 29E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
July 13, 1948
Home of record
Dayton, Ohio (Montgomery County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 16, 1967
Age
19
Province
Hua Nghia
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

35 names on the Wall carry the date November 16, 1967; 15 of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 91 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 29E, Line 103

Same unit, same day

From Dayton

All 122 names from Dayton →

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.