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WILLIAM ALLEN GLEIXNER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 21, 1946 – February 22, 1968
Service recordWilliam Allen Gleixner, of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 22, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 40E, Line 63 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40E · Line 63
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- December 21, 1946
- Home of record
- Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania (Cumberland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 22, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
76 names on the Wall carry the date February 22, 1968; seven of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 61 of its members that month.
He died in Bình Dương Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 40E, Line 63
- HENRY HERNDON GRAHAMSpecialist Four · February 22, 1968
- RANDALL ALLEN HENZEPrivate First Class · February 22, 1968
- RONALD LEE HILLSpecialist Four · February 22, 1968
- JAMES LARRY HOLLANDCorporal · February 22, 1968
Same unit, same day
- TERANCE M BOZARTHFirst Lieutenant · Panel 40E, Line 58
- KENNETH DAVID SCOTTWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 40E, Line 68
From Mechanicsburg
- THOMAS THOMAS SPRINKLESpecialist Four · July 7, 1968
- PAUL EARL FOUGHT JRPrivate First Class · October 20, 1968
- JERRY RAY LANGLEYSpecialist Four · May 2, 1969
- JOSEPH JOHN MEYER JRPrivate First Class · July 4, 1969
- WILLIAM HENRY MORRIS JRCaptain · October 9, 1969
- WAYNE LEROY YINGER JRCorporal · May 27, 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.