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WILLIAM DENNI BREIGHTMYER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
November 6, 1947 – May 5, 1968
Service recordWilliam Denni Breightmyer, of Ford City, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 5, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 55E, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 55E · Line 2
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- November 6, 1947
- Home of record
- Ford City, Pennsylvania (Armstrong County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 5, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
189 names on the Wall carry the date May 5, 1968; 21 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 151 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 55E, Line 2
- JOHNNIE HAROLD BEASLEYPrivate First Class · May 5, 1968
- ELROY EUGENE BEIERSergeant · May 5, 1968
- DAVID LEE BLATTELChief Warrant Officer 2 · May 5, 1968
- DANIEL JOHN BLOMFELTPrivate First Class · May 5, 1968
Same unit, same day
- FREDERICK ALLEN BARCLAYSpecialist Four · Panel 54E, Line 42
- ELROY EUGENE BEIERSergeant · Panel 55E, Line 2
- THEODORE R BONHAM JRSergeant · Panel 55E, Line 3
- CHARLES KENNETH DEEREPrivate First Class · Panel 55E, Line 8
- FOSTER HAMILTONSpecialist Four · Panel 55E, Line 15
- KENNETH PORTER MORROWSergeant · Panel 55E, Line 24
- DONALD M PERDUESergeant · Panel 55E, Line 26
From Ford City
- CLAIR BERNARD BUTZSergeant First Class · January 6, 1970
- KEITH DARRELL HEFFNERPrivate First Class · March 2, 1971
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.