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WILLIAM F VANDERVORT JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 25, 1944 – April 26, 1968
Service recordWilliam F Vandervort JR, of Erie, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 26, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 52E, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 52E · Line 26
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)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- March 25, 1944
- Home of record
- Erie, Pennsylvania (Erie County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 26, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
69 names on the Wall carry the date April 26, 1968; four of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 96 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 52E, Line 26
- LARRY ALDEN WINCHESTERSergeant First Class · April 26, 1968
- ROBERT LEE WORRELLPrivate First Class · April 26, 1968
- EDWARD JOSEPH ZEWERT JRSpecialist Four · April 26, 1968
- ROBERT EDWARD FUSSCorporal · April 27, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DALLAS TYLER ADAIR JRCorporal · Panel 52E, Line 13
- ELDON ALLEN BAKERSergeant · Panel 52E, Line 13
- HARRIS LESTER COLLINSCorporal · Panel 52E, Line 15
From Erie
- RONALD ROBERT MARTINStaff Sergeant · November 17, 1965
- JACK LEE NEIDRICKLance Corporal · March 17, 1966
- LEONARD IRA HENRYSergeant · May 6, 1966
- THOMAS JOSEPH KENNEDY JRCaptain · June 12, 1966
- DAVID WILLIAM HILLPrivate First Class · July 23, 1966
- CLIFTON MARTIN WALTERPrivate First Class · August 23, 1966
- DAVID JOSEPH IGNASIAKPrivate First Class · November 4, 1966
- DONALD ROY OSWALDGunnery Sergeant · December 23, 1966
- FRANK CARL SUVARA JRPrivate First Class · January 14, 1967
- JOSEPH EDWARDSSergeant · January 19, 1967
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.