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WILLARD LOYD WILLIAMS
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
December 14, 1948 – May 22, 1968
Service recordWillard Loyd Williams, of Lilbourn, Missouri, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 22, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 66E, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 66E · Line 4
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
- Lance Corporal (LCPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Machinegunner (0331)
- Born
- December 14, 1948
- Home of record
- Lilbourn, Missouri (New Madrid County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 22, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date May 22, 1968; ten of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 66E, Line 4
- VICTOR D WESTPHALL IIIFirst Lieutenant · May 22, 1968
- MICHAEL WALTER WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · May 22, 1968
- RAY WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · May 22, 1968
- CALVIN KNIGHT WOOD JRPrivate · May 22, 1968
From Lilbourn
- ISAAC JONESLance Corporal · April 26, 1967
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.