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WILLEY EDGAR WILLIAMS JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 4, 1947 – January 2, 1969
Service recordWilley Edgar Williams JR, of New York, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 2, 1969, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 35W, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35W · Line 22
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- December 4, 1947
- Home of record
- New York, New York (Kings County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 2, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date January 2, 1969; seven of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 84 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 35W, Line 22
- RICHARD CLAIR SEELYCorporal · January 2, 1969
- CHARLES EDWARD SELLNERWarrant Officer 1 · January 2, 1969
- BOBBY GENE STEVENSONStaff Sergeant · January 2, 1969
- RICHARD HAUSE SWEGERSergeant First Class · January 2, 1969
Same unit, same day
- ARTHUR FRANCIS BARTLETTSergeant · Panel 35W, Line 18
- MURPHY PLEASANT JRPrivate First Class · Panel 35W, Line 21
From New York
- WALTER R MCCARTHY JRCaptain · June 16, 1962
- JOHN HOWARD MCCLEANCaptain · August 16, 1963
- DONALD ALLAN MOLLICONEFirst Lieutenant · December 20, 1963
- VINCENT JOSEPH HICKMANCaptain · January 14, 1964
- MARTIN STOCKFEDERPrivate First Class · July 15, 1964
- ROBERT GEORGE ARMSTRONGFirst Lieutenant · October 24, 1964
- DOMINICK SANSONESergeant First Class · December 10, 1964
- DONALD GILBERT COOKColonel · December 31, 1964
- TERENCE MEREDITH MURPHYLieutenant (junior grade) · April 9, 1965
- ROBERT CARL WISTRANDColonel · May 9, 1965
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.