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WILLIAM ANDREW DISHMAN
Private First Class · U.S. Army
October 31, 1946 – April 17, 1967
Service recordWilliam Andrew Dishman, of Jefferson, Kentucky, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 17, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 38 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 38
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- October 31, 1946
- Home of record
- Jefferson, Kentucky (Jefferson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 17, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date April 17, 1967; two of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 57 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 18E, Line 38
- DEAN ROGER ZIMMERMANPrivate First Class · April 16, 1967
- ROSARIO RUSSEL ABBATESergeant · April 17, 1967
- VINCENT JAMES AGIUSLance Corporal · April 17, 1967
- GARY ARTHUR BILLHIMERPrivate First Class · April 17, 1967
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES MILLERPrivate First Class · Panel 18E, Line 42
- RICHARD LEE TAYLORPrivate First Class · Panel 18E, Line 43
- THOMAS WESTON JRPrivate First Class · Panel 18E, Line 44
From Jefferson
- ROBERT ALLEN MASTERSONSpecialist Four · September 3, 1966
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.