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WILLIAM CARL ECKES
Petty Officer First Class · U.S. Navy
September 20, 1940 – March 10, 1967
Service recordWilliam Carl Eckes, of Beach, North Dakota, served as a Petty Officer First Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on March 10, 1967, in Ninh Thuan Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 51 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16E · Line 51
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer First Class (PO1)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Journalist (JO)
- Born
- September 20, 1940
- Home of record
- Beach, North Dakota (Golden Valley County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 10, 1967
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Ninh Thuan
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date March 10, 1967; eight of them were lost in Ninh Thuan Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 16E, Line 51
- JOEL ANDREW BROWNPrivate First Class · March 10, 1967
- CECIL LEROY CHAPMANPetty Officer Second Class · March 10, 1967
- JOHN CALVIN CRAWFORDLieutenant · March 10, 1967
- FRANCIS RAYMOND FERRON JRAirman · March 10, 1967
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.