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WILLIAM GRANT DELLVON
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
November 21, 1947 – July 8, 1967
Service recordWilliam Grant Dellvon, of Utica, Michigan, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 8, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 35 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 23E · Line 35
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (1371)
- Born
- November 21, 1947
- Home of record
- Utica, Michigan (Macomb County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 8, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
21 names on the Wall carry the date July 8, 1967; ten of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 23E, Line 35
- JAMES L COTTEN JRStaff Sergeant · July 8, 1967
- MERRITT THOMAS COUSINSLance Corporal · July 8, 1967
- JAMES THOMAS DAVISCaptain · July 8, 1967
- GERALD DUNNLance Corporal · July 8, 1967
From Utica
- FRANK MUSCYNSKISergeant · May 19, 1966
- ANDREW CHMIELLance Corporal · October 13, 1966
- PETER JOHN SCHUTZSpecialist Four · March 3, 1967
- WILFRIED BURCKCorporal · April 27, 1967
- GEORGE SAMUEL CAMPBELLSpecialist Four · July 26, 1967
- HARRY GROVER KUNKLER IIISpecialist Five · June 11, 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.