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WALTER WILLIAMS
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
March 22, 1930 – June 21, 1969
Service recordWalter Williams, of Lafayette, Louisiana, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 21, 1969, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 39. His name is inscribed on Panel 22W, Line 110 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 22W · Line 110
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 First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Cannon Crewmember (13B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- March 22, 1930
- Home of record
- Lafayette, Louisiana
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 21, 1969
- Age
- 39
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Vehicle Crash (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
45 names on the Wall carry the date June 21, 1969; two of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 60 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 22W, Line 110
- CHARLES FLOYD TYSON IIIPrivate First Class · June 21, 1969
- JORGE VARGASPrivate First Class · June 21, 1969
- MICHAEL PATRICK WARNERCorporal · June 21, 1969
- RICHARD ANTHONY WEIL JRLance Corporal · June 21, 1969
Same unit, same day
- REGINALD WILLIAM JONESPrivate First Class · Panel 22W, Line 105
From Lafayette
- GEORGE PARKER MCKNIGHTCaptain · December 11, 1965
- ROY JAMES RICHARDPrivate · May 29, 1966
- CARROLL JAMES HEBERTPrivate First Class · November 29, 1966
- PATRICK RONALD MURPHYSpecialist Four · March 14, 1967
- RAY WESLEY RHODUSSpecialist Four · April 1, 1967
- KENNETH JOHN STUTESLance Corporal · July 5, 1967
- ARTHUR J DELA HOUSSAYE JRCaptain · January 31, 1968
- THOMAS TRUETT HENSLEYMajor · March 17, 1968
- WALTER ALVIN SOUTHER IIICaptain · June 24, 1968
- HUBERT SINEGAL JRPrivate First Class · January 5, 1969
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.