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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Arthur Wyman Ball.

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ARTHUR WYMAN BALL

Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy

February 11, 1948 – April 23, 1968

Service record

Arthur Wyman Ball, of De Kalb, Texas, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on April 23, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 51E, Line 35 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 51E · Line 35

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
Service
Regular
Born
February 11, 1948
Home of record
De Kalb, Texas (Bowie County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 23, 1968
Age
20
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

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43 names on the Wall carry the date April 23, 1968; six of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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From De Kalb

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.