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WILLIAM CHARLES VASEY
Lieutenant · U.S. Navy
November 2, 1944 – January 7, 1971
Service recordWilliam Charles Vasey, of Doylestown, Pennsylvania, served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. He died on January 7, 1971, in Kien Giang Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 5W, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 5W · Line 32
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Navy
- Rank
- Lieutenant (LT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Url No Warfare Specialty (1100)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MOBILE RIVERINE FORCE TF 117 ASLT
- Born
- November 2, 1944
- Home of record
- Doylestown, Pennsylvania (Bucks County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 7, 1971
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Kien Giang
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
14 names on the Wall carry the date January 7, 1971; two of them were lost in Kien Giang Province. In January 1971, 259 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “MOBILE RIVERINE FORCE TF 117 ASLT”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 5W, Line 32
- KENNETH ROGER RUSHINGFirst Lieutenant · January 7, 1971
- RICHARD EUGENE TABORSpecialist Four · January 7, 1971
- DOUGLAS MARTIN BECKMANPrivate First Class · January 8, 1971
- JAMES HOWARD CARTWRIGHTFirst Lieutenant · January 8, 1971
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT LEE PAYNTERPetty Officer Second Class · Panel 5W, Line 31
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.