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UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967.
UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967. Photo: PFC Franklin G. Nickerson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Walter F Morris.

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WALTER F MORRIS

Chief Warrant Officer 2 · U.S. Army

June 27, 1943 – April 26, 1967

Service record

Walter F Morris, of Feasterville, Pennsylvania, served as a Chief Warrant Officer 2 in the U.S. Army. He died on April 26, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 95 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 18E · Line 95

Position of Panel 18E 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
Chief Warrant Officer 2 (CW2)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Helicopter Pilot, Medium Transport (062D)
Unit (as recorded)
178 AVN CO AMER DIV
Born
June 27, 1943
Home of record
Feasterville, Pennsylvania (Bucks County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 26, 1967
Age
23
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

49 names on the Wall carry the date April 26, 1967; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 18E, Line 95

From Feasterville

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.