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WILLIAM FRANK STORCH JR
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
April 7, 1940 – March 28, 1967
Service recordWilliam Frank Storch JR, of Kaunakakai, Hawaii, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 28, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 65 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 65
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- April 7, 1940
- Home of record
- Kaunakakai, Hawaii (Maui County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 28, 1967
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date March 28, 1967; he was the only one lost in Tây Ninh Province that day. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 35 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 17E, Line 65
- GEORGE MARK STEVENSONPrivate First Class · March 28, 1967
- VERRELL DANIEL STILESCorporal · March 28, 1967
- GERALD JOHN WAHLENSpecialist Four · March 28, 1967
- RICHARD DALE WEIDNERPrivate First Class · March 28, 1967
Same unit, same day
- GERALD JOHN WAHLENSpecialist Four · Panel 17E, Line 65
From Kaunakakai
- DOUGLAS FLORESMaster Sergeant · July 5, 1966
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.