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WILLIAM WAYNE WYMER
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 11, 1949 – April 16, 1968
Service recordWilliam Wayne Wymer, of Ravenna, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 16, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 50E, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 50E · Line 24
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
- Assaultman (0351)
- Born
- January 11, 1949
- Home of record
- Ravenna, Ohio (Portage County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 16, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
74 names on the Wall carry the date April 16, 1968; 50 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 50E, Line 24
- JERRY ALAN SWEETPrivate First Class · April 16, 1968
- SETH LEE WEST JRStaff Sergeant · April 16, 1968
- WILMER DWAYNE WILSONHospitalman · April 16, 1968
- ROBERT WRIGHTCorporal · April 16, 1968
From Ravenna
- GARY LEE FARLEYSpecialist Four · November 12, 1967
- ROBERT EDWARD PACIOREKSpecialist Four · November 20, 1967
- GEORGE EDGAR SPECKPrivate First Class · February 27, 1968
- DARRYL BLAKE FULLUMSpecialist Four · March 24, 1968
- ROBERT LARRY KINGSergeant First Class · April 25, 1969
- CHRISTOPHER HAROLD TURKPrivate First Class · February 13, 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.