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WYMAN BYRD COLEMAN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 22, 1949 – October 8, 1968
Service recordWyman Byrd Coleman, of Lynchburg, South Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 8, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 41W, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41W · Line 29
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- March 22, 1949
- Home of record
- Lynchburg, South Carolina (Lee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 8, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date October 8, 1968; five of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 62 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 41W, Line 29
- WILLIAM MARION BREES JRHospitalman · October 8, 1968
- SHERMAN ALVIN FURROW JRSpecialist Four · October 8, 1968
- EUGENE HINGLETON JRSpecialist Four · October 8, 1968
- STEVE JOSEPH LEONE PERRYSpecialist Four · October 8, 1968
From Lynchburg
- WILLIAM JAMES HENRYSpecialist Four · August 2, 1966
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.