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WAYNE WILLIAM PEARCE
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
May 22, 1931 – March 27, 1968
Service recordWayne William Pearce, of Portage, Ohio, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 27, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 36. His name is inscribed on Panel 46E, Line 49 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46E · Line 49
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. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- May 22, 1931
- Home of record
- Portage, Ohio (Wood County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 27, 1968
- Age
- 36
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Died of other causes
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date March 27, 1968; four of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 101 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 46E, Line 49
- WILLIE BUREL RICHMONDSpecialist Four · March 27, 1968
- MICHAEL CANDIDO RUSSOPrivate First Class · March 27, 1968
- RICHARD LEROY SCHMIDTPrivate First Class · March 27, 1968
- FRANK SCHUSTERCorporal · March 27, 1968
Same unit, same day
- MICHAEL CANDIDO RUSSOPrivate First Class · Panel 46E, Line 49
- JOSEPH EUGENE SINTONISpecialist Four · Panel 46E, Line 50
- EXTRUMBERTO SOLISSpecialist Four · Panel 46E, Line 50
- JAMES DAVIS WHITESergeant · Panel 46E, Line 51
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.