The Wall › Panel 60W › New Jersey › Allen Williams
ALLEN WILLIAMS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
November 2, 1943 – June 3, 1968
Service recordAllen Williams, of Glassboro, New Jersey, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 3, 1968, in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 60W, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 60W · Line 7
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
Remember
Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.
Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Light Vehicle Driver (64A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- November 2, 1943
- Home of record
- Glassboro, New Jersey (Gloucester County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 3, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Khanh Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
61 names on the Wall carry the date June 3, 1968; he was the only one lost in Khanh Hoa Province that day. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 60W, Line 7
- PETER JOSEPH WEIDEMIERPrivate First Class · June 3, 1968
- DAVID CLARK WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · June 3, 1968
- MICHAEL LUND WILSONSecond Lieutenant · June 3, 1968
- IKE OTHEL BONNERSpecialist Four · June 4, 1968
Same unit, same day
- MILTON DARRELL GRUBERSpecialist Four · Panel 61W, Line 24
From Glassboro
- RICHARD JOHNSONSpecialist Five · March 4, 1968
- DOUGLAS EALEYSergeant · October 19, 1968
- LEON ROY FIELDSergeant First Class · December 13, 1968
- JAMES DAVID HAGELSTEINPrivate First Class · February 14, 1970
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.