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WILBUR FLORENCE MATTOX
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 16, 1944 – April 25, 1968
Service recordWilbur Florence Mattox, of Gainesville, Georgia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 25, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 52E, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 52E · Line 8
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- January 16, 1944
- Home of record
- Gainesville, Georgia (Hall County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 25, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
53 names on the Wall carry the date April 25, 1968; 16 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 23 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 52E, Line 8
- HENRY THURMAN MCCRIMMONSergeant · April 25, 1968
- BOLEN PONDEXDER MCGEESpecialist Five · April 25, 1968
- ALBERT COOK MITCHELLColonel · April 25, 1968
- VICTOR ALLEN MOHRSpecialist Four · April 25, 1968
From Gainesville
- RONALD CLEVELAND CLARKSpecialist Four · June 22, 1967
- NICKLOS BYRON JANESSergeant · November 4, 1967
- ANTHONY EDWIN ELLIOTTSpecialist Four · January 30, 1968
- LARRY BRYSON HULSEYSergeant · February 6, 1968
- FORREST GOUDELOCKSergeant · April 19, 1968
- LUFKIN SCOTT SHARPCaptain · June 19, 1968
- CLAUDE TILLMAN ROPERSpecialist Four · October 3, 1968
- GEORGE LAMAR YOUNGSpecialist Four · November 25, 1968
- JACKIE RAY MCKENZIECorporal · May 6, 1969
- JOHNNY BILL ROBERTSON JRPrivate First Class · June 8, 1969
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.