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WILLIAM FRANKLIN HARRELL
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 18, 1948 – December 9, 1968
Service recordWilliam Franklin Harrell, of Adel, Georgia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 9, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 74 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 74
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Tactical Wire Operations Specialist (36K)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- November 18, 1948
- Home of record
- Adel, Georgia (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 9, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date December 9, 1968; two of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 106 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 37W, Line 74
- ERNEST LAWRENCE GOMEZSergeant · December 9, 1968
- LEO STANLEY GORALSKIPrivate First Class · December 9, 1968
- ERNEST JOSEPH GRASSISpecialist Four · December 9, 1968
- GARRY DWIGHT HAYNESSpecialist Four · December 9, 1968
Same unit, same day
- GARY WAYNE CHAPMANCorporal · Panel 37W, Line 73
- EDWARD FORDSpecialist Five · Panel 37W, Line 73
- LEO STANLEY GORALSKIPrivate First Class · Panel 37W, Line 74
From Adel
- CARL WAYNE HUGHESPrivate First Class · March 15, 1969
- DONALD JUNE CORBETTSpecialist Four · May 13, 1969
- ERNEST LEE STANFORDPrivate First Class · July 30, 1969
- OSCAR LEE GRIFFINLance Corporal · November 18, 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.