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WILLIAM CLARK PETTY
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
November 10, 1929 – June 21, 1967
Service recordWilliam Clark Petty, of Gaffney, South Carolina, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 21, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 37. His name is inscribed on Panel 22E, Line 33 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 22E · Line 33
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- November 10, 1929
- Home of record
- Gaffney, South Carolina (Cherokee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 21, 1967
- Age
- 37
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date June 21, 1967. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 22E, Line 33
- RUSSELL ELWARD PAGELance Corporal · June 21, 1967
- LARRY MICHAEL PORTERLance Corporal · June 21, 1967
- RUSSELL RENE ROULIERCorporal · June 21, 1967
- ERNEST PABLO SANTOSPrivate First Class · June 21, 1967
From Gaffney
- RICHARD L FOXXTechnical Sergeant · October 15, 1962
- JOHN WILLARD CLARYPlatoon Sergeant · March 29, 1967
- JOHN ROBERT ALLISONPrivate First Class · February 22, 1968
- SAMUEL EDWARD FOSTERSergeant · March 24, 1968
- WARREN LESTER RUTLANDSergeant · October 4, 1968
- JAMES ALBERT SPENCER JRSpecialist Four · April 21, 1969
- JOHN SHEPARD REAVES JRSergeant · July 8, 1969
- EDWARD DECAMP SOSSAMONSergeant · April 16, 1970
- JOHNNY LEWIS DOVER JRSpecialist Four · June 5, 1970
- ROBERT LAWRENCE BLACKWELLPrivate First Class · December 1, 1970
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.