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Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970.
Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Troy Byron Williams.

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TROY BYRON WILLIAMS

Sergeant · U.S. Army

May 12, 1936 – November 8, 1965

Service record

Troy Byron Williams, of Mt Hope, West Virginia, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 8, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 3E, Line 39 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 3E · Line 39

Position of Panel 3E 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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
173 AIRBORNE BDE
Born
May 12, 1936
Home of record
Mt Hope, West Virginia (Fayette County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 8, 1965
Age
29
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

50 names on the Wall carry the date November 8, 1965. In November 1965, 545 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 52 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 3E, Line 39

Same unit, same day

From Mt Hope

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.