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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of William Fredrick Huber JR.

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WILLIAM FREDRICK HUBER JR

Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army

November 6, 1924 – November 15, 1967

Service record

William Fredrick Huber JR, of San Antonio, Texas, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 15, 1967, in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 43. His name is inscribed on Panel 29E, Line 101 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 29E · Line 101

Position of Panel 29E 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
Sergeant First Class (SFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Journalist (71Q)
Born
November 6, 1924
Home of record
San Antonio, Texas (Bexar County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 15, 1967
Age
43
Province
Khanh Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Infectious Disease

Context · from the records

What was happening

23 names on the Wall carry the date November 15, 1967; he was the only one lost in Khanh Hoa Province that day. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 29E, Line 101

From San Antonio

All 287 names from San Antonio →

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.