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WILLIAM SAMUEL WADDLE
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
December 21, 1931 – January 4, 1970
Service recordWilliam Samuel Waddle, of Blairsville, Pennsylvania, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 4, 1970, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 38. His name is inscribed on Panel 15W, Line 126 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15W · Line 126
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- December 21, 1931
- Home of record
- Blairsville, Pennsylvania (Indiana County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 4, 1970
- Age
- 38
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date January 4, 1970; three of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In January 1970, 529 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 15W, Line 126
- PETER PULASKI JRCorporal · January 4, 1970
- FRANCIS JOSEPH SNEE JRCorporal · January 4, 1970
- BERNARD ALLEN SOWDERPrivate First Class · January 4, 1970
- JAMES SIDNEY VANCECorporal · January 4, 1970
From Blairsville
- THOMAS WILLIAM LAUGHLINPrivate First Class · February 5, 1968
- DAVID OLIVER AUENLance Corporal · June 7, 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.