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WINCE ISAAC OVERTON JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 28, 1947 – March 20, 1968
Service recordWince Isaac Overton JR, of Pineville, Kentucky, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 20, 1968, in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 45E, Line 41 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45E · Line 41
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- December 28, 1947
- Home of record
- Pineville, Kentucky (Bell County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 20, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Phuoc Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
41 names on the Wall carry the date March 20, 1968; he was the only one lost in Phuoc Long Province that day. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 26 of its members that month.
He died in Phuoc Long 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.
Also on Panel 45E, Line 41
- MICHAEL HAYWARD KETCHPrivate First Class · March 20, 1968
- DAVID ALLEN MADDUXCorporal · March 20, 1968
- KENNETH DEE MOORESpecialist Four · March 20, 1968
- GREGORY FREDRICK MOSSFORDPrivate First Class · March 20, 1968
From Pineville
- DAN WAGNER JRSergeant First Class · December 15, 1967
- JAMES MIRACLE JRPrivate First Class · April 3, 1968
- HENRY JACKSONSergeant · May 18, 1968
- CHARLES EDWARD WARDLance Corporal · May 28, 1968
- HAROLD SULLIVANSergeant · February 20, 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.