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GERALD STUART WILLIAMS
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
March 22, 1949 – April 30, 1968
Service recordGerald Stuart Williams, of Greenville, Michigan, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 30, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 53E, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 53E · Line 26
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- March 22, 1949
- Home of record
- Greenville, Michigan (Montcalm County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 30, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
87 names on the Wall carry the date April 30, 1968; 53 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 53E, Line 26
- ROBERT EUGENE FLOYDSergeant · March 31, 1968
- ROBERT LEE WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · April 30, 1968
- ALFRED MELVIN WOLFESpecialist Four · April 30, 1968
- JAMES RONALD WORLEYSergeant · April 30, 1968
From Greenville
- DANNY LEE JONESPrivate First Class · May 11, 1966
- WADE LAWRENCE GROTHStaff Sergeant · February 12, 1968
- GERALD EDWARD KORSONLance Corporal · June 14, 1968
- DENNIS LEE GILESSpecialist Four · September 24, 1968
- WILLIAM JOHN ALLENSergeant · February 22, 1969
- DANIEL LESLIE FRIESCorporal · October 19, 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.