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WILLIE GENE ALDRIDGE
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 16, 1947 – December 10, 1968
Service recordWillie Gene Aldridge, of Winchester, Kentucky, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 10, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 78 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 78
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)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- May 16, 1947
- Home of record
- Winchester, Kentucky (Clark County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 10, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date December 10, 1968; three of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 37W, Line 78
- CURTIS HENRY SHARP JRSergeant · December 9, 1968
- SAMUEL DALE SHIMEKSpecialist Four · December 9, 1968
- ERVIN DALE SMITHSpecialist Four · December 9, 1968
- JOHNNY CHARLES TURNERPrivate First Class · December 9, 1968
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES ALVIN DIXONPrivate First Class · Panel 37W, Line 80
- JOHN PATRICK MELOYSpecialist Four · Panel 37W, Line 82
From Winchester
- MERLE EDWARD ESTESStaff Sergeant · June 11, 1965
- FLOYD BARKER JRPrivate First Class · March 22, 1967
- EVERETT ALLEN PLANCKCorporal · September 13, 1968
- BOBBY GENE NEWBYCorporal · May 18, 1969
- BOBBY LEE GENTRYPrivate First Class · July 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.