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RAY LEE WILLIAMS
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
August 20, 1940 – March 13, 1967
Service recordRay Lee Williams, of Kemah, Texas, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on March 13, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 75 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16E · Line 75
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 Second Class (PO2)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Builder (BU)
- Unit (as recorded)
- NMCB 8 3 NC BDE
- Born
- August 20, 1940
- Home of record
- Kemah, Texas (Galveston County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 13, 1967
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
17 names on the Wall carry the date March 13, 1967; three of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 16E, Line 75
- MERLIN EUGENE BALLPrivate First Class · March 14, 1967
- FRED BEILECorporal · March 14, 1967
- LESLIE PAUL BERNSTEINSpecialist Four · March 14, 1967
- ANGEL LUIS FRAGOSA-GARCIACorporal · March 14, 1967
From Kemah
- REFUGIO CANALESSpecialist Four · November 2, 1968
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.