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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Thomas Earl Williams JR.

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THOMAS EARL WILLIAMS JR

First Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps

December 26, 1943 – May 2, 1969

Service record

Thomas Earl Williams JR, of Pensacola, Florida, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 2, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 26W, Line 105 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 26W · Line 105

Position of Panel 26W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
First Lieutenant (1STLT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Pilot Ch-46 Qualified (7562)
Born
December 26, 1943
Home of record
Pensacola, Florida (Escambia County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 2, 1969
Age
25
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

46 names on the Wall carry the date May 2, 1969; 14 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 26W, Line 105

From Pensacola

All 74 names from Pensacola →

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.