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WILLIAM CLESSON SELLERS
Chief Warrant Officer 2 · U.S. Army
May 8, 1929 – April 26, 1965
Service recordWilliam Clesson Sellers, of Haskell, New Jersey, served as a Chief Warrant Officer 2 in the U.S. Army. He died on April 26, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 35. His name is inscribed on Panel 1E, Line 109 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 1E · Line 109
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Chief Warrant Officer 2 (CW2)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Born
- May 8, 1929
- Home of record
- Haskell, New Jersey (Passaic County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 26, 1965
- Age
- 35
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
One name on the Wall carry the date April 26, 1965. In April 1965, 61 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 1E, Line 109
- RANDALL KENNETH CAMPBELLLance Corporal · April 25, 1965
- CARL RICHARD WENZELPrivate First Class · April 25, 1965
- ROBERT WILLIAM DOSSAirman First Class · April 27, 1965
- EUGENE RUSSELL FOWLERCaptain · April 27, 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.