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WILLIAM FRANCIS BRICE JR
Sergeant · U.S. Army
May 3, 1945 – May 27, 1968
Service recordWilliam Francis Brice JR, of Dover, New Jersey, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 27, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 65W, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 65W · Line 5
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- May 3, 1945
- Home of record
- Dover, New Jersey (Morris County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 27, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
78 names on the Wall carry the date May 27, 1968; two of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 70 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 65W, Line 5
- FIDELE JOSEPH BASTARACHESergeant · May 27, 1968
- BRADLEY BOWLINGPrivate First Class · May 27, 1968
- LARRY JAMES BURKHARDTPrivate First Class · May 27, 1968
- LARRY ANTHONY CARAVETTAPrivate First Class · May 27, 1968
Same unit, same day
- PATRICK MATTHEW STEELECorporal · Panel 64W, Line 2
From Dover
- HARLAN CARL RILKCorporal · September 16, 1967
- ROBERT ERNEST SIPESpecialist Five · September 23, 1967
- ALLEN WALTER VANDERHOOFCorporal · May 21, 1968
- JOHN B PETERSON JRSpecialist Four · March 10, 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.