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JERRY LEONARD WILLIAMS
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
June 3, 1944 – May 26, 1968
Service recordJerry Leonard Williams, of Picher, Oklahoma, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on May 26, 1968, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 65W, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 65W · Line 3
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Radioman (RM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MOBILE RIVERINE FORCE TF 117 SQ 11 ASLT DIV 11
- Born
- June 3, 1944
- Home of record
- Picher, Oklahoma (Ottawa County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 26, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Kien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date May 26, 1968; nine of them were lost in Kien Hoa Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “MOBILE RIVERINE FORCE TF 117 SQ 11 ASLT DIV 11”, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 65W, Line 3
- WILLIAM OTHELLO ADAMS JRPrivate First Class · May 27, 1968
- EDDIE HUGH ALLENPrivate First Class · May 27, 1968
- JESSE JAMES ARMWOODSpecialist Four · May 27, 1968
- ROLLIN RANDOLPH AUSTINCorporal · May 27, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RONALD WAYNE DURBINPetty Officer Second Class · Panel 66W, Line 5
From Picher
- FRED MONROE OWENSSergeant First Class · June 10, 1965
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.