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WILLIAM EDWARD HUFF
Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
June 17, 1949 – February 25, 1968
Service recordWilliam Edward Huff, of Nazareth, Pennsylvania, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 25, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 41E, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41E · Line 22
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- June 17, 1949
- Home of record
- Nazareth, Pennsylvania (Northampton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 25, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
96 names on the Wall carry the date February 25, 1968; 32 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 41E, Line 22
- GORDON KAY HUGHESSecond Lieutenant · February 25, 1968
- DONALD JACQUESSecond Lieutenant · February 25, 1968
- STANLEY JOHNSONSpecialist Four · February 25, 1968
- BRUCE EDWIN JONESCorporal · February 25, 1968
From Nazareth
- RAY GLENWOOD HAWKPrivate First Class · July 28, 1968
- CRAIG GORDON KLOTZPrivate First Class · October 1, 1969
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.