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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Willard Gene Storie.

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WILLARD GENE STORIE

Chief Warrant Officer 2 · U.S. Army

March 4, 1937 – November 24, 1970

Service record

Willard Gene Storie, of Owensville, Missouri, served as a Chief Warrant Officer 2 in the U.S. Army. He died on November 24, 1970, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 33. His name is inscribed on Panel 6W, Line 82 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 6W · Line 82

Position of Panel 6W 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
Engineer Equipment Repair Technician (621A)
Unit (as recorded)
AMERICAL DIV
Born
March 4, 1937
Home of record
Owensville, Missouri (Gasconade County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 24, 1970
Age
33
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

17 names on the Wall carry the date November 24, 1970; four of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In November 1970, 347 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 17 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 6W, Line 82

Same unit, same day

From Owensville

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.