WILSON, WAYNE VASTER

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.  2020

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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SSGT WAYNE VASTER WILSON

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On July 2, 1967, members of Company B of the 1st Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division engaged a North Vietnamese Army force in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, in the vicinity of (GC) YD 135 725. After the battle concluded on July 4, U.S. forces identified and recovered the remains of thirty-five of the thirty-six men lost during the fighting, as well as several wounded. Only one individual remains unaccounted for following the incident.

Lance Corporal Wayne Vaster Wilson, who joined the U.S. Marine Corps from North Carolina, was a member of Company B, 1st Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, and was the only man lost during the battle who remains unaccounted for. He was last seen during the fighting on July 2, and further attempts to locate him were unsuccessful. Following the incident, the Marine Corps promoted Lance Corporal Wilson to the rank of Staff Sergeant. Today, Staff Sergeant Wilson is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

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