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BILL FRED WILLIAMS JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 28, 1947 – January 8, 1969
Service recordBill Fred Williams JR, of Marion, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 8, 1969, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 35W, Line 57 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35W · Line 57
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- December 28, 1947
- Home of record
- Marion, North Carolina (Mcdowell County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 8, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
25 names on the Wall carry the date January 8, 1969. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 35W, Line 57
- GERALD DUANE STONEMETZSpecialist Four · January 8, 1969
- JUAN BAUZA-PEREZSpecialist Four · January 9, 1969
- JAMES EDWARD BERRYSpecialist Four · January 9, 1969
- ANTHONY JAY DEBONOPrivate First Class · January 9, 1969
Same unit, same day
- GERALD FRANKLIN APPERSONSergeant First Class · Panel 35W, Line 53
From Marion
- JOHN EDWARD MCMAHANPrivate First Class · May 5, 1966
- GETER ALFRED HENSLEYPetty Officer Second Class · November 12, 1967
- JERRY WILLIAM GILLIANDSpecialist Four · January 6, 1968
- DENNIS MICHAEL POTEATStaff Sergeant · March 30, 1968
- DWIGHT EDGAR MOONEYSergeant · August 8, 1968
- JAMES ALEX JENKINSCorporal · May 20, 1969
- MICHAEL DEAN WEBBPrivate First Class · July 6, 1969
- JERRY LANE GREENESpecialist Five · November 26, 1969
- HAROLD DEAN HOLLIFIELDCorporal · August 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.