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WILLIAM CARROLL HELM
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 4, 1950 – July 11, 1969
Service recordWilliam Carroll Helm, of Cerro Gordo, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 11, 1969, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 101 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21W · Line 101
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- October 4, 1950
- Home of record
- Cerro Gordo, Illinois (Piatt County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 11, 1969
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
38 names on the Wall carry the date July 11, 1969; two of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 25 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 21W, Line 101
- JOE RICHARD GLASSBURNSpecialist Four · July 11, 1969
- ARNOLD COURTNEY HAYWARDLieutenant Colonel · July 11, 1969
- HERMAN HAZELTONSergeant · July 11, 1969
- DANIEL JOHN JONES JRPrivate First Class · July 11, 1969
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM ROBERT BURT JRSpecialist Five · Panel 21W, Line 98
From Cerro Gordo
- DONALD RAY WIESTLance Corporal · August 24, 1965
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.