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WALTER HENRY FORBES III
Captain · U.S. Air Force
June 20, 1941 – March 21, 1967
Service recordWalter Henry Forbes III, of Swampscott, Massachusetts, served as a Captain in the U.S. Air Force. He died on March 21, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 3
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Air Force
- Rank
- Captain (CAPT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Born
- June 20, 1941
- Home of record
- Swampscott, Massachusetts (Essex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 21, 1967
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
95 names on the Wall carry the date March 21, 1967; 35 of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 17E, Line 3
- TENNIS CRISPIAN FERRELLStaff Sergeant · March 21, 1967
- BRIAN FRANCIS GIBBONSPrivate First Class · March 21, 1967
- JAN JOSEPH GRABOWSKI JRPrivate First Class · March 21, 1967
- WILLIE GRANT JRSpecialist Four · March 21, 1967
From Swampscott
- ALAN BATES HARRIMANCaptain · August 15, 1964
- GEORGE ELLERY HUSSEYMajor · May 4, 1970
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.