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WESLEY ROBERT SEXTON
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 16, 1946 – July 9, 1967
Service recordWesley Robert Sexton, of Cornelia, Georgia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 9, 1967, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 39 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 23E · Line 39
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)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- May 16, 1946
- Home of record
- Cornelia, Georgia (Habersham County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 9, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
Eight names on the Wall carry the date July 9, 1967; three of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 35 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 23E, Line 39
- CHARLES RICHARD LEELieutenant Commander · July 9, 1967
- T CHRISTOPHER FORD OBRIENLance Corporal · July 9, 1967
- CURLEY JOHN SIMONSpecialist Four · July 9, 1967
- WILLIAM ERIC STROBELSpecialist Four · July 9, 1967
Same unit, same day
- SZOLTON SIGMOND KLEINPrivate First Class · Panel 23E, Line 36
- CLIFFORD GARLAND BURCHPrivate First Class · Panel 23E, Line 38
From Cornelia
- HILLIARD ALMOND WILBANKSCaptain · February 24, 1967
- PHILLIP RANDALL DUFFSergeant · July 7, 1972
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.