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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 J C Williams.

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J C WILLIAMS

Private First Class · U.S. Army

November 27, 1940 – June 11, 1966

Service record

J C Williams, of Cleveland, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 11, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 8E, Line 41 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 8E · Line 41

Position of Panel 8E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Heavy Anti-Armor Weapons Infantryman (11H)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
November 27, 1940
Home of record
Cleveland, Ohio (Cuyahoga County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 11, 1966
Age
25
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

42 names on the Wall carry the date June 11, 1966. In June 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 113 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 8E, Line 41

Same unit, same day

From Cleveland

All 250 names from Cleveland →

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.