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REUBEN CHARLES WILLIAMS
Second Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps
August 12, 1944 – August 30, 1967
Service recordReuben Charles Williams, of Altamont, Tennessee, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 30, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 73 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25E · Line 73
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
- Second Lieutenant (2NDLT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Basic Supply Admin And Operations Off (3001)
- Born
- August 12, 1944
- Home of record
- Altamont, Tennessee (Grundy County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 30, 1967
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date August 30, 1967; four of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 25E, Line 73
- ROSS W WOOD JRSergeant · August 30, 1967
- PETER JOSEPH CANELAKESPrivate First Class · August 31, 1967
- MICHAEL FREDRICK ELFLEINCorporal · August 31, 1967
- DANNY WRAY ENGESSERPrivate First Class · August 31, 1967
From Altamont
- RAYMOND CARL EUBANKS JRSergeant · December 23, 1967
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.