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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 Harrison Pease.

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WILLIAM HARRISON PEASE

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

May 3, 1951 – April 16, 1970

Service record

William Harrison Pease, of Ft Dodge, Iowa, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 16, 1970, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 11W, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 11W · Line 24

Position of Panel 11W 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Born
May 3, 1951
Home of record
Ft Dodge, Iowa (Webster County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 16, 1970
Age
18
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

19 names on the Wall carry the date April 16, 1970; three of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1970, 730 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 11W, Line 24

From Ft Dodge

All 12 names from Ft Dodge →

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.