Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: 541st Military Intelligence Detachment, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 96D – Imagery Analyst
Awards: Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 21-Oct-1945
Hometown: Oxford, Nebraska
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 22-Dec-1965
Start of tour: 19-Aug-1966
Incident date: 21-Nov-1966
Date of casualty: 21-Nov-1966
Age at death: 21
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Grenade. Multiple fragmentation wounds.
Wallace James Malone died on 21 Nov 1966 in Vietnam as the result of metal fragment wound to head received in hostile ground action.
Five Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
PFC Russell Louis Halley
SP4 Ray Ellsworth Johnson
SP4 Wallace James Malone
PFC Harry Lee Powers
SP4 Jimmy Linwood Rhodes
Location of fatality: South Vietnam
Place of interment: Oxford Cemetery, Oxford, Nebraska, USA
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