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WILLIAM ANTHONY WILL
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
August 4, 1941 – July 5, 1966
Service recordWilliam Anthony Will, of Glassport, Pennsylvania, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on July 5, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 8E, Line 134 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 8E · Line 134
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- August 4, 1941
- Home of record
- Glassport, Pennsylvania (Allegheny County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 5, 1966
- Age
- 24
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
Ten names on the Wall carry the date July 5, 1966. In July 1966, 562 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 8E, Line 134
- WILLIAM HERBERT MAYHAIRSpecialist Four · July 5, 1966
- ROBERT RUSSELL BODESergeant First Class · July 6, 1966
- CHARLES WILLIAM DAVISCorporal · July 6, 1966
- ROOSEVELT HESTLE JRColonel · July 6, 1966
Same unit, same day
- CURTIS ESTILL BINIONFirst Lieutenant · Panel 8E, Line 132
From Glassport
- VALENTINE JOHN SYNKOWSKILance Corporal · May 15, 1968
- RICHARD RUDOLPH KAPSHAPrivate First Class · November 6, 1971
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.