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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Wayne Winston Teeple.

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WAYNE WINSTON TEEPLE

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

January 2, 1945 – March 3, 1969

Service record

Wayne Winston Teeple, of Roseville, Michigan, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 3, 1969, in Vinh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 30W, Line 33 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 30W · Line 33

Position of Panel 30W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Field Artillery Basic (13A)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
January 2, 1945
Home of record
Roseville, Michigan (Macomb County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 3, 1969
Age
24
Province
Vinh Long
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

89 names on the Wall carry the date March 3, 1969; six of them were lost in Vinh Long Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 78 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 30W, Line 33

Same unit, same day

From Roseville

All 25 names from Roseville →

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.