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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 Joseph George Villiard.

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JOSEPH GEORGE VILLIARD

Corporal · U.S. Army

March 7, 1935 – March 24, 1966

Service record

Joseph George Villiard, of Manchester, New Hampshire, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on March 24, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 6E, Line 45 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 6E · Line 45

Position of Panel 6E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Cannon Crewmember (13B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
March 7, 1935
Home of record
Manchester, New Hampshire (Hillsborough County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 24, 1966
Age
31
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

21 names on the Wall carry the date March 24, 1966. In March 1966, 564 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 47 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 6E, Line 45

From Manchester

All 38 names from Manchester →

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.