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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Timothy Taylor Williams.

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TIMOTHY TAYLOR WILLIAMS

Specialist Five · U.S. Army

August 24, 1945 – July 10, 1969

Service record

Timothy Taylor Williams, of Toledo, Ohio, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on July 10, 1969, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 97 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 21W · Line 97

Position of Panel 21W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Specialist Five (SP5)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Special Purpose Materiel Supply Specialist (76Q)
Unit (as recorded)
AMERICAL DIV
Born
August 24, 1945
Home of record
Toledo, Ohio (Lucas County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 10, 1969
Age
23
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

29 names on the Wall carry the date July 10, 1969; three of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 21W, Line 97

From Toledo

All 118 names from Toledo →

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.