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WILLIAM ARTHUR KIMSEY JR
Chief Warrant Officer 3 · U.S. Army
January 9, 1947 – January 21, 1968
Service recordWilliam Arthur Kimsey JR, of Reliance, Tennessee, served as a Chief Warrant Officer 3 in the U.S. Army. He was lost on January 21, 1968, in North Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35E · Line 7
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.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Chief Warrant Officer 3 (CW3)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Fixed Wing Aviation Unit Commander (1980)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- January 9, 1947
- Home of record
- Reliance, Tennessee (Polk County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- January 21, 1968
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- First reported
- Missing in action
Context · from the records
What was happening
42 names on the Wall carry the date January 21, 1968. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 33 of its members that month.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 35E, Line 7
- THOMAS LLOYD KINGSTONLance Corporal · January 21, 1968
- JOHN WALLACE KNIGHTSergeant · January 21, 1968
- GORDON LEE LAWRENCETechnical Sergeant · January 21, 1968
- MALCOLM GEOFFREY MOLEPetty Officer Third Class · January 21, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JERRY W ELLIOTTStaff Sergeant · Panel 35E, Line 5
- BILLY DAVID HILLSergeant First Class · Panel 35E, Line 6
- GERALD LEROY MCKINSEY JRWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 35E, Line 8
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.