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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of William Charles Fitzgerald.

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WILLIAM CHARLES FITZGERALD

Lieutenant · U.S. Navy

January 28, 1938 – August 7, 1967

Service record

William Charles Fitzgerald, of Worcester, Vermont, served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. He died on August 7, 1967, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 24E, Line 86 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 24E · Line 86

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Lieutenant (LT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Url No Warfare Specialty (1100)
Born
January 28, 1938
Home of record
Worcester, Vermont (Washington County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 7, 1967
Age
29
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

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21 names on the Wall carry the date August 7, 1967; three of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 24E, Line 86

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.