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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Jimmie Williams.

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JIMMIE WILLIAMS

Private First Class · U.S. Army

March 29, 1944 – October 25, 1966

Service record

Jimmie Williams, of Savannah, Georgia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 25, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 11E, Line 106 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 11E · Line 106

Position of Panel 11E 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
Regular
Occupation
Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
Unit (as recorded)
E TRP 2 SQD 11 CAV 11 ACR
Born
March 29, 1944
Home of record
Savannah, Georgia (Chatham County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 25, 1966
Age
22
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

11 names on the Wall carry the date October 25, 1966. In October 1966, 516 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 11E, Line 106

From Savannah

All 74 names from Savannah →

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.