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Name: Wayne Vaster Wilson
Branch/Rank: United States Marine Corps/E5
Unit: B CO 1 BN 9 MAR 3 MAR DIV
Date of Birth: 04 October 1945
Home City of Record: THOMASVILLE NC
Date of Loss: 02 July 1967
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 155500 North 1070000 East
Status (in 1973): Missing in Action
Category: 4
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: GROUND
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident:
Refno:
Source: Compiled by P.O.W. NETWORK from one or more of the following: raw
data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA
families, published sources, interviews and CACCF = Combined Action
Combat Casualty File.
REMARKS:
CACCF/ARTILLERY/ROCKET/QUANG TRI
No further information available at this time.
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Library of Congress files:
South Vietnam, pre-1975: RESULTS OF INVESTIGATION CONCERNING THE CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUNDING THE MISSING IN ACTION STATUS OF LANCE CORPORAL WAYNE VASTER WILSON Country: South Vietnam, pre-1975
Name: WAYNE VASTER WILSON
Subjects: Ground battle
Comments: INCLUDES STATEMENTS, AND RELATED MESSAGES.
Reel: 200
Page: 10-28
Type of Document: Memorandum
Date of Report: 67 08 14
Date of Information: 67 07 02
Originator: USMC
Category: Casualty files
post-1975 Vietnam: Biographic/Site Report as of 1 May 1986 Country: post-1975 Vietnam
Name: Wilson Wayne Vaster
Subjects: Grave site
Comments: summary of case history
Reel: 53
Source Number: 3036
Page: 78-79
Type of Document: Miscellaneous
Date of Report: 86 05 01
Date of Information: 86 00 00
Originator: JCRC
Category: Source Reports
South Vietnam, pre-1975: BIOGRAPHIC/SITE REPORT Country: South Vietnam, pre-1975
Name: WAYNE VASTER WILSON
Subjects: Killed; QUANG TRI; Ben Hai District; Ground battle
Reel: 200
Page: 43-44
Type of Document: Automated Data Extract
Date of Report: 92 06 11
Date of Information: 67 07 02
Originator: JTF-FA
Category: Casualty files
South Vietnam, pre-1975: IIR 6024045492 - LAST KNOWN ALIVE INVESTIGATION OF REFNO 0839 Country: South Vietnam, pre-1975
Name: WAYNE VASTER WILSON
Subjects: Ground battle; QUANG TRI; Grave site
Reel: 200
Page: 74-81
Type of Document: Message
Date of Report: 92 08 07
Date of Information: 67 09 21
Document Number: 070935ZAUG92
Originator: USDAO BANGKOK TH
Category: Casualty files
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On 02 July 1967 the North Vietnamese Army's 9th Battalion, 90th
Regiment, ambushed and overran Bravo Company, 1/9 Marines, leading
to a day-long battle fought on Route 561 between An Kha and
Gia Binh, Quang Tri Province. Alpha and H&S Companies reinforced
Bravo and at day's end the battalion broke contact with 53 known
dead, 190 wounded, and 34 men missing from its units. The 1/9 Marines
regrouped and returned to the battleground on 5 July where they
recovered additional bodies, raising the casualty count to 84.
One Marine was carried as Missing in Action - Sergeant Wayne V. Wilson.
The North Vietnamese never claimed Wilson as a prisoner, and he did not
return with the POWs in 1973. Sergeant Wilson simply disappeared on the
battlefield and has never been found. On 05 September 1973, the
Secretary of the Navy approved a Presumptive Finding of Death,
changing his status from MIA to KIA/BNR.
Sources:
The POW Network, Hobson's "Vietnam Air Losses", The Virtual Wall, and the US DoD POW/MIA Office.
