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WAYNE STANLEY HORVATH
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
December 2, 1949 – June 30, 1969
Service recordWayne Stanley Horvath, of Amherst, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 30, 1969, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 38 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21W · Line 38
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
- December 2, 1949
- Home of record
- Amherst, Ohio (Lorain County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 30, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date June 30, 1969; two of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 21W, Line 38
- REX DOUGLAS HARLOWCorporal · June 30, 1969
- JOHN WILLIAM HULMESecond Lieutenant · June 30, 1969
- JAMES WALTER JONESCorporal · June 30, 1969
- JAMES ARNOLD KLYNECorporal · June 30, 1969
- RICHARD MONROE PRUETTSergeant · February 28, 2005
From Amherst
- FLEMING B BRAINERD IIICaptain · May 26, 1965
- THOMAS LYNN SNYDERSpecialist Four · September 14, 1969
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.