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WENDELL LEE SLAVENS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
February 23, 1948 – May 17, 1967
Service recordWendell Lee Slavens, of Oxford, Indiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 17, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 19 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20E · Line 19
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- February 23, 1948
- Home of record
- Oxford, Indiana (Benton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 17, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date May 17, 1967; he was the only one lost in Bình Định Province that day. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 87 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 20E, Line 19
- TERENCE EDWARD SIMONPrivate First Class · May 17, 1967
- GREGORY MALCOLM THOMPSONPrivate First Class · May 17, 1967
- ROGER DARRIEL THOMPSONPrivate First Class · May 17, 1967
- JOHN ROY TIGHEPrivate First Class · May 17, 1967
From Oxford
- THOMAS AQUINAS PARKERPetty Officer First Class · April 5, 1967
- FRANCIS DAVID GREENWOODPrivate First Class · December 27, 1967
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.