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WESLEY GENE ICE
Private First Class · U.S. Army
July 18, 1946 – May 25, 1969
Service recordWesley Gene Ice, of Bridgeport, West Virginia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 25, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 103 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24W · Line 103
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- July 18, 1946
- Home of record
- Bridgeport, West Virginia (Harrison County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 25, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
44 names on the Wall carry the date May 25, 1969; three of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 60 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 24W, Line 103
- DAVID BOUNDS HERRINGCorporal · May 25, 1969
- RONNIE ELLIS HOGBINSergeant First Class · May 25, 1969
- DONALD WILLIAM IDEFirst Lieutenant · May 25, 1969
- GARY MCCOLLOUGHCorporal · May 25, 1969
Same unit, same day
- OPHREY AUSTIN IRVINSpecialist Four · Panel 24W, Line 104
- CALVIN RAY PATRICKPrivate First Class · Panel 24W, Line 106
From Bridgeport
- GLENN WAYNE FREEMANCorporal · January 8, 1968
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.