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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of William Edward Tieman.

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WILLIAM EDWARD TIEMAN

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

March 30, 1948 – January 8, 1968

Service record

William Edward Tieman, of Delanco, New Jersey, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 8, 1968, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 34E, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 34E · Line 1

Position of Panel 34E 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
March 30, 1948
Home of record
Delanco, New Jersey (Burlington County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 8, 1968
Age
19
Province
Long An
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

101 names on the Wall carry the date January 8, 1968; 25 of them were lost in Long An Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 97 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 34E, Line 1

Same unit, same day

From Delanco

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.