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An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina.
An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. Photo: A1C Aaron Jenne, U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of William E Lemmons.

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WILLIAM E LEMMONS

Major · U.S. Army

January 12, 1942 – June 18, 1967

Service record

William E Lemmons, of Pocatello, Idaho, served as a Major in the U.S. Army. He was lost on June 18, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 22E, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 22E · Line 7

Position of Panel 22E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Major (MAJ)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Unit (as recorded)
196 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
January 12, 1942
Home of record
Pocatello, Idaho (Bannock County)

Casualty

Date of loss
June 18, 1967
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Presumed Dead
Circumstance
Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)
First reported
Missing
Remains
Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record

Context · from the records

What was happening

18 names on the Wall carry the date June 18, 1967; nine of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. 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.

His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.

Also on Panel 22E, Line 7

From Pocatello

All 15 names from Pocatello →

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.