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WILLIAM H BLAKE JR
Private · U.S. Marine Corps
December 14, 1947 – February 6, 1968
Service recordWilliam H Blake JR, of Hanover, Massachusetts, served as a Private in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 6, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 37E, Line 48 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37E · Line 48
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private (PVT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- December 14, 1947
- Home of record
- Hanover, Massachusetts (Plymouth County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 6, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
147 names on the Wall carry the date February 6, 1968; 52 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Nam Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 37E, Line 48
- LARRY GENE BARHAMPrivate First Class · February 6, 1968
- IVYL RAY BENDERLance Corporal · February 6, 1968
- RICHARD BENJAMINCorporal · February 6, 1968
- FORREST LEE BOLINSpecialist Four · February 6, 1968
From Hanover
- THOMAS ROY GORRILLFirst Lieutenant · April 2, 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.