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WILLARD GERALD WRIGHT
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
May 7, 1947 – February 12, 1968
Service recordWillard Gerald Wright, of Leaksville, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 12, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 39E, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39E · Line 15
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- May 7, 1947
- Home of record
- Leaksville, North Carolina (Rockingham County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 12, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date February 12, 1968; five of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Nam Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 39E, Line 15
- RICHARD EDWARD WAGNERSergeant · February 12, 1968
- WILLIAM JAMES WEBERSpecialist Four · February 12, 1968
- DAVID CHARLES WILLIAMSSpecialist Five · February 12, 1968
- RANDALL ALAN WOOLCOTTPrivate First Class · February 12, 1968
From Leaksville
- JERRY LAYNE MCKINNEYPrivate First Class · April 8, 1967
- WILLIAM CHARLES JOHNSONSpecialist Four · May 29, 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.