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PETER RAY WILLEY
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 5, 1948 – January 15, 1968
Service recordPeter Ray Willey, of Bloomington, Minnesota, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 15, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 34E, Line 57 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34E · Line 57
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Assaultman (0351)
- Born
- January 5, 1948
- Home of record
- Bloomington, Minnesota (Hennepin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 15, 1968
- 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
30 names on the Wall carry the date January 15, 1968; seven of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 34E, Line 57
- EARL ROGER BIGGSSergeant Major · November 11, 1967
- HERBERT ROY ANDERSONSpecialist Four · January 16, 1968
- JIMMIE RAY BLISSETTSpecialist Four · January 16, 1968
- LARRY THOMAS BRENTSpecialist Four · January 16, 1968
From Bloomington
- GARY FRANCIS MCCUELance Corporal · May 8, 1967
- RONALD BARRY LANNINGPrivate First Class · February 19, 1968
- WILLIAM JOHN DAHLSpecialist Four · December 24, 1969
- DANIEL KENNETH WELINPrivate First Class · April 4, 1970
- RONNIE CARL TESCHENDORFSergeant · November 29, 1970
- MICHAEL MATTHEW SIKICHSpecialist Four · December 23, 1970
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.