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WILBUR LEO WILLIAMS JR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
September 8, 1947 – March 30, 1968
Service recordWilbur Leo Williams JR, of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 30, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 47E, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47E · Line 18
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 3/5 CAV 9 INF DIV
- Born
- September 8, 1947
- Home of record
- Fitchburg, Massachusetts (Worcester County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 30, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
58 names on the Wall carry the date March 30, 1968; 30 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “3/5 CAV 9 INF DIV”, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 47E, Line 18
- DONALD ALBERT WARRENSergeant · March 30, 1968
- STEPHAN MAX WIGGINSSergeant · March 30, 1968
- DAVID REYNOLDS WILSONFirst Lieutenant · March 30, 1968
- ROBERT EUGENE WILSONSpecialist Four · March 30, 1968
Same unit, same day
- PATRICK KEVIN BURKECorporal · Panel 47E, Line 9
- PETER JOSEPH GALLOFirst Lieutenant · Panel 47E, Line 10
- GEORGE EDWARD GRUBBSCorporal · Panel 47E, Line 11
- BERT AUSTIN KEELERSergeant · Panel 47E, Line 12
- JAMES EARL MORSECorporal · Panel 47E, Line 14
- DENNIS MICHAEL POTEATStaff Sergeant · Panel 47E, Line 17
- CHARLES E SHAWSpecialist Four · Panel 47E, Line 17
- STEPHAN MAX WIGGINSSergeant · Panel 47E, Line 18
From Fitchburg
- PAUL FRANCIS MCNALLYCaptain · June 6, 1965
- CHARLES EHNSTROM TOFFERICaptain · October 20, 1966
- CHESTER ARTHUR CUMMINGSStaff Sergeant · May 3, 1967
- THOMAS ALFRED DESCHENESSpecialist Four · June 22, 1967
- EARL EDWARD TYREEPrivate First Class · December 22, 1967
- PHILIP RONALD CHASSIONMaster Sergeant · February 2, 1968
- GERALD ROGER LEGERSergeant · March 24, 1968
- ROBERT DAVID GARIEPYCorporal · May 4, 1968
- LEO RENE MARCOULIERCaptain · June 6, 1969
- FRANCIS GERALD FRECHETTECorporal · June 17, 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.