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LESTER LEE WILLIAMS
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
June 14, 1947 – December 23, 1967
Service recordLester Lee Williams, of Kirksville, Missouri, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on December 23, 1967, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 53 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 32E · Line 53
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
- Equipment Operator (EO)
- Unit (as recorded)
- NMCB 3 3 NC BDE
- Born
- June 14, 1947
- Home of record
- Kirksville, Missouri (Adair County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 23, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date December 23, 1967; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “NMCB 3 3 NC BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 32E, Line 53
- RAYMOND CARL EUBANKS JRSergeant · December 23, 1967
- KENNETH EUGENE THRESHERLance Corporal · December 23, 1967
- NICHOLAS GEORGE WALZPetty Officer Third Class · December 23, 1967
- JOHN LAWRENCE WULFFERTSecond Lieutenant · December 23, 1967
Same unit, same day
- NICHOLAS GEORGE WALZPetty Officer Third Class · Panel 32E, Line 53
From Kirksville
- ROBERT LEE KASTERCorporal · March 21, 1967
- WILLIAM MICHAEL HARPERSecond Lieutenant · September 17, 1967
- GARY L GRISSOMSpecialist Four · October 25, 1967
- LARRY EDWIN CROWSergeant · October 11, 1969
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.