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FLOYD LEE WILLIAMS JR
Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army
March 27, 1948 – May 24, 1968
Service recordFloyd Lee Williams JR, of Northglenn, Colorado, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on May 24, 1968, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 70E, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 70E · Line 1
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.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- March 27, 1948
- Home of record
- Northglenn, Colorado (Adams County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 24, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
76 names on the Wall carry the date May 24, 1968; five of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 47 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 70E, Line 1
- NICHOLAS SAMUEL VRANKOVICHLance Corporal · May 24, 1968
- DAVID HUGH WHITEHILLSecond Lieutenant · May 24, 1968
- ROGER DALE WILLIAMSLance Corporal · May 24, 1968
- JESSIE CHARLES ALBASergeant · May 25, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT MILTON PAULKChief Warrant Officer 2 · Panel 68E, Line 6
- HU BLAKEMORE RHODESChief Warrant Officer 3 · Panel 69E, Line 1
From Northglenn
- THOMAS LEE FULLERCorporal · July 31, 1969
- JOSEPH FREDERICK DENARDOWarrant Officer 1 · November 6, 1972
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.