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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of William Henry M Scott.

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WILLIAM HENRY M SCOTT

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

July 14, 1948 – June 17, 1969

Service record

William Henry M Scott, of Mt Clemens, Michigan, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 17, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 22W, Line 69 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 22W · Line 69

Position of Panel 22W 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. Marine Corps
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
July 14, 1948
Home of record
Mt Clemens, Michigan (Macomb County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 17, 1969
Age
20
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

48 names on the Wall carry the date June 17, 1969; three of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 22W, Line 69

From Mt Clemens

All 23 names from Mt Clemens →

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.