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REGINALD WILLIAMS JR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
April 27, 1944 – April 18, 1968
Service recordReginald Williams JR, of New York, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 18, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 50E, Line 43 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 50E · Line 43
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- April 27, 1944
- Home of record
- New York, New York (Kings County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 18, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date April 18, 1968; five of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 189 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 50E, Line 43
- ERNEST VETTER JRPrivate First Class · April 18, 1968
- JOHNNY ROBERT WEBBPrivate First Class · April 18, 1968
- FREDERICK DEVILLA WESCOTTStaff Sergeant · April 18, 1968
- GROVER C WRIGHT JRSpecialist Five · April 18, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT JAY HESSPrivate First Class · Panel 50E, Line 36
- UDO HANNIGANPrivate · Panel 50E, Line 39
- STERLING G W RIDDICKSpecialist Four · Panel 50E, Line 41
- DONALD EUGENE SMRTNIKSergeant · Panel 50E, Line 42
From New York
- WALTER R MCCARTHY JRCaptain · June 16, 1962
- JOHN HOWARD MCCLEANCaptain · August 16, 1963
- DONALD ALLAN MOLLICONEFirst Lieutenant · December 20, 1963
- VINCENT JOSEPH HICKMANCaptain · January 14, 1964
- MARTIN STOCKFEDERPrivate First Class · July 15, 1964
- ROBERT GEORGE ARMSTRONGFirst Lieutenant · October 24, 1964
- DOMINICK SANSONESergeant First Class · December 10, 1964
- DONALD GILBERT COOKColonel · December 31, 1964
- TERENCE MEREDITH MURPHYLieutenant (junior grade) · April 9, 1965
- ROBERT CARL WISTRANDColonel · May 9, 1965
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.