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TIM LEROY WALTERS
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
February 24, 1943 – March 9, 1969
Service recordTim Leroy Walters, of South Bend, Indiana, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 9, 1969, in Laos, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 30W, Line 97 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 30W · Line 97
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. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- February 24, 1943
- Home of record
- South Bend, Indiana (St Joseph County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 9, 1969
- Age
- 26
- Country
- Laos
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
72 names on the Wall carry the date March 9, 1969. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.
He died in Laos while the air war over Laos was under way. From 1964 to 1973, U.S. aircraft bombed the Ho Chi Minh Trail and supported the war in northern Laos; many of the Americans lost over Laos were never recovered.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 30W, Line 97
- RAYMOND LEROY TACKEMajor · March 8, 1969
- CHARLES FRANK STURMASergeant · March 9, 1969
- THOMAS GAINES TURNERSergeant · March 9, 1969
- JAMES HOWELL WALLSergeant · March 9, 1969
- HUEY WILLIAMSSpecialist Four · March 9, 1969
From South Bend
- JOHN RUSSELL HILLSMajor · February 14, 1966
- RONALD LEE RUNKELLance Corporal · August 24, 1965
- ALLEN L HIGGINBOTHANSpecialist Four · April 2, 1966
- EVEANS JERRY STULTSSergeant · September 2, 1966
- KENNETH EUGENE KASAStaff Sergeant · April 19, 1967
- LARRY FLOYD JANKOWSKIPrivate · May 8, 1967
- RUSSELL PERRY MILLERPrivate First Class · May 10, 1967
- LONNIE MICHAEL HOLMESSergeant · June 15, 1967
- LEE CHARL HITCHCOCKCaptain · September 10, 1967
- MICHAEL JENNINGS HALLSecond Lieutenant · January 8, 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.