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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 Francis Wilmer Deal JR.

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FRANCIS WILMER DEAL JR

Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy

August 23, 1939 – October 3, 1969

Service record

Francis Wilmer Deal JR, of Westville, Illinois, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on October 3, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 30. His name is inscribed on Panel 17W, Line 33 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 17W · Line 33

Position of Panel 17W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Boatswain's Mate (BM)
Born
August 23, 1939
Home of record
Westville, Illinois (Vermilion County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 3, 1969
Age
30
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Drowning

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12 names on the Wall carry the date October 3, 1969; he was the only one lost in Quảng Trị Province that day. In October 1969, 600 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 17W, Line 33

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.