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WILLIAM HENRY MORRIS JR
Captain · U.S. Army
April 12, 1945 – October 9, 1969
Service recordWilliam Henry Morris JR, of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He died on October 9, 1969, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 17W, Line 58 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17W · Line 58
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
- Captain (CPT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- April 12, 1945
- Home of record
- Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania (Cumberland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 9, 1969
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Binh Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date October 9, 1969; seven of them were lost in Binh Long Province. In October 1969, 600 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 17W, Line 58
- TONY LEE ONEALCorporal · October 9, 1969
- GREG BRADFORD SCOTTSpecialist Five · October 9, 1969
- JAMES CURTIS SHIELDSPrivate First Class · October 9, 1969
- RICHARD ALAN SMITH SRSpecialist Four · October 9, 1969
Same unit, same day
- LAWRENCE DALE ACREMajor · Panel 17W, Line 53
- JOHN EDWARD LOPEZ JRSergeant First Class · Panel 17W, Line 57
- ROBERT RICHARD MILLERSergeant First Class · Panel 17W, Line 57
From Mechanicsburg
- WILLIAM ALLEN GLEIXNERSpecialist Four · February 22, 1968
- THOMAS THOMAS SPRINKLESpecialist Four · July 7, 1968
- PAUL EARL FOUGHT JRPrivate First Class · October 20, 1968
- JERRY RAY LANGLEYSpecialist Four · May 2, 1969
- JOSEPH JOHN MEYER JRPrivate First Class · July 4, 1969
- WAYNE LEROY YINGER JRCorporal · May 27, 1970
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.