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WILLARD DUANE DURHAM JR
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 27, 1948 – July 23, 1967
Service recordWillard Duane Durham JR, of Greenfield Center, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 23, 1967, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 110 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 23E · 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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- January 27, 1948
- Home of record
- Greenfield Center, New York (Saratoga County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 23, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date July 23, 1967; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 23E, Line 110
- CHARLES JAMES EVANSSergeant · July 23, 1967
- JAMES ROBERT FISCHERSergeant · July 23, 1967
- ROGER DWIGHT GOLDSMITHSpecialist Four · July 23, 1967
- THOMAS MATTHEW HUNTLEYSpecialist Four · July 23, 1967
From Greenfield Center
- FLOYD EDWARD ANDRUS IIIPetty Officer Second Class · March 16, 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.