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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Franklin Joe Willison.

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FRANKLIN JOE WILLISON

Private First Class · U.S. Army

April 19, 1950 – May 26, 1970

Service record

Franklin Joe Willison, of Mammoth Spring, Arkansas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 26, 1970, in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 10W, Line 107 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 10W · Line 107

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Light Air Defense Artillery Crewmember (16F)
Unit (as recorded)
1 FIELD FORCE
Born
April 19, 1950
Home of record
Mammoth Spring, Arkansas (Fulton County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 26, 1970
Age
20
Province
Phuoc Long
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

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What was happening

31 names on the Wall carry the date May 26, 1970; he was the only one lost in Phuoc Long Province that day. In May 1970, 917 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 16 of its members that month.

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Also on Panel 10W, Line 107

From Mammoth Spring

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.