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WILLIAM HAROLD STROUD
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 10, 1950 – October 14, 1970
Service recordWilliam Harold Stroud, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 14, 1970, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 6W, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6W · Line 1
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- May 10, 1950
- Home of record
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Milwaukee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 14, 1970
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
Ten names on the Wall carry the date October 14, 1970; he was the only one lost in Quảng Tín Province that day. In October 1970, 318 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 23 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 6W, Line 1
- MARCUS SMITHSergeant · October 14, 1970
- JOHN HENRY THOMAS JRPrivate First Class · October 14, 1970
- CARL JEFFREY WANKAChief Warrant Officer 2 · October 14, 1970
- CECIL ALBERT WELLMANStaff Sergeant · October 14, 1970
From Milwaukee
- TOM JOSEPH CRESSLieutenant · January 6, 1961
- ROBERT BURGERTSergeant · February 13, 1963
- PETER MATTHEW FEIERABENDPrivate First Class · February 16, 1964
- THADDEUS ZAJACSpecialist Four · September 27, 1965
- JAMES CALVIN WARDPrivate First Class · October 11, 1965
- TIMOTHY HOLTON JOHNSONPrivate First Class · November 6, 1965
- RICHARD WILLIAM SCHWENDLERCorporal · November 16, 1965
- MICHAEL ALFRED GRUBERPrivate First Class · December 5, 1965
- RICHARD JOSEPH BRUNKEPrivate First Class · December 14, 1965
- MICHAEL PETER MORANPrivate First Class · January 9, 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.