Vietnam Veterans Memorial — Online & Searchable

The National Archives and Records Administration and Footnote have worked together to produce an online, searchable, version of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

Allowing users to search by name, rank, branch of service or hometown the service shares information about the record of each soldier’s record.

Facts about The Interactive Wall
At full size, The Wall image on Footnote is about 460 feet wide (400,000 pixels wide by 12,500 pixels tall).
We found 58,320 names inscribed on The Wall.
There are about 70 names which are duplicates or misspellings.
8 names are women.
2,056 are listed as “body not recovered.”
Average age is 22.8 years old.
The image was assembled from 6,301 images photographed by Peter Krogh and stitched by Darren Higgins

Interactive Vietnam Veterans Memorial ** Thanks GearLive**