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WYMAN GENE BRITT
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 20, 1949 – August 4, 1969
Service recordWyman Gene Britt, of Fairmont, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 4, 1969, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 94 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20W · Line 94
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
- Armor Crewman (11E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- October 20, 1949
- Home of record
- Fairmont, North Carolina (Robeson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 4, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
11 names on the Wall carry the date August 4, 1969; he was the only one lost in Tây Ninh Province that day. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 64 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 20W, Line 94
- STEPHEN EUGENE SROKAPrivate First Class · August 3, 1969
- JAMES DAVID WHITECaptain · August 3, 1969
- CHARLES WILLIAM BEESLERPrivate First Class · August 4, 1969
- ROY DONALD BRATTONFirst Lieutenant · August 4, 1969
Same unit, same day
- EUGENE C OATES IIICaptain · Panel 20W, Line 95
- FRED MICHAEL RAGLANDCorporal · Panel 20W, Line 96
From Fairmont
- CHARLES TERRELL PITTMANSpecialist Four · February 13, 1966
- WILLIE JEROME PEPPERS JRSergeant · May 10, 1966
- BOBBY RAY JONESPrivate First Class · January 8, 1968
- WILLIE B MCNEILLSpecialist Four · February 10, 1968
- WILLIE F OXENDINE IIIPrivate First Class · May 30, 1968
- DAN MICHAEL BRITTSpecialist Four · March 18, 1969
- VICTOR LAWRENCE JONESPrivate First Class · October 11, 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.