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Vietnam War Casualties- Main Alphabetical Index. Find A Name. Information. Memorial pages honoring Vietnam War casualties, listed by their last names. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. has the names listed in chronological order by date of loss. These alphabetical indexes are for your convenience but do not represent the order ...
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial www.VirtualWall.org: Find A Name....
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The West Wall May 25, 1968 to May 15, 1975. The Wall in...
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Index of Vietnam War Casualties by Unit of Assignment. The...
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Lin’s intention from the beginning was to have the names appear chronologically, beginning and ending at the apex. She wanted the names to tell the journey, or the timeline, of the war. This approach would allow veterans, friends and family members to find a loved one by his or her date of casualty. It would also enable veterans to find groups of f...
Beside each name is a symbol that denotes a service member’s status: either missing or confirmed dead. On the west wall, the symbol precedes the name; on the east wall, the symbol follows the name. A diamond symbol signifies that the service member’s death was confirmed. Those designated by a “plus” sign were considered to be missing in action when...
Doubek was tasked with identifying all of the names to be included on the Wall. During and after the Vietnam War, the Department of Defense (DoD) compiled a list of combat zone casualties according to criteria in a 1965 Presidential Executive Order. It specified the geographic areas of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and surrounding coastal areas as combat...
Another challenge was ensuring the accuracy of the names. Doubek contacted the National Personnel Records Center, Archives and Records Service, in St. Louis, Mo. On the other end of that phone call was an former Air Force officer who had served in Vietnam. He would become instrumental in helping Doubek identify names and check spellings. Once a mas...
As of 2017, there are 58,318 names inscribed on The Wall. The first group, added in 1983, included 53 Marines who were killed when their R&R (rest and relaxation) flight crashed in Hong Kong. A few years after the dedication, the issue of geographic criteria was expanded by DoD to include people who had been killed outside of the war zone while on ...
Although the names are not listed alphabetically, it is not difficult for visitors to find a name on the Memorial. The National Park Service offers these steps for locating a name: 1. Look up the name in the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Directory of Names. These directories are located at both ends of the Wall and contain an alphabetical listing of al...
The virtual Wall of Faces features a page dedicated to honoring and remembering every person whose name is inscribed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. In an effort to further preserve the legacy of those who sacrificed all in Vietnam, VVMF is committed to finding a photo to go with each of the more than 58,000 names on The ...
Mar 15, 2024 · Dedicated in 1993, the Vietnam Women's Memorial pays tribute to the more than 265,000 women who served during the Vietnam era. Find a Name Search the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund's database of names on the wall.
Jun 12, 2006 · The 58,152 names of those who died in Vietnam are etched onto the two rising black marble slabs of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. The slabs meet at a vertex of 125 degrees, 10 feet above ground level to form the Wall. The shining surface is intended to reflect the sun, the ground and those who stand before it.
November 13, 1982. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, commonly called the Vietnam Memorial, is a U.S. national memorial in Washington, D.C., honoring service members of the U.S. armed forces who served in the Vietnam War. The two-acre (8,100 m 2) site is dominated by two black granite walls engraved with the names of those service members who died ...
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