The WallVietnam Veterans Memorial · The Lake Norman Brief
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of William Anthony Gunter JR.

The Wall › Panel 25E › Louisiana › William Anthony Gunter JR

WILLIAM ANTHONY GUNTER JR

Private First Class · U.S. Army

October 29, 1946 – September 2, 1967

Service record

William Anthony Gunter JR, of Natchez, Louisiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 2, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 83 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 25E · Line 83

Position of Panel 25E 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.

See this name on the Wall

Remember

Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.

Share a photo or memoryPhotos & remembrances on VVMF’s Wall of Faces ↗

Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Light Vehicle Driver (64A)
Unit (as recorded)
523 TRANS CO 1 LOG CMD
Born
October 29, 1946
Home of record
Natchez, Louisiana

Casualty

Date of death
September 2, 1967
Age
20
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

50 names on the Wall carry the date September 2, 1967; eight of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Read the history

On the Wall

Elsewhere

Also on Panel 25E, Line 83

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.