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WILLIAM HENRY MURPHY III
Lieutenant (junior grade) · U.S. Navy
September 23, 1942 – November 19, 1967
Service recordWilliam Henry Murphy III, of Madison, Wisconsin, served as a Lieutenant (junior grade) in the U.S. Navy. He died on November 19, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 25 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 30E · Line 25
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. Navy
- Rank
- Lieutenant (junior grade) (LTJG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Url No Warfare Specialty (1100)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- September 23, 1942
- Home of record
- Madison, Wisconsin (Dane County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 19, 1967
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
77 names on the Wall carry the date November 19, 1967; five of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 30E, Line 25
- JAMES WILLIAM FLYNT IIISpecialist Four · November 19, 1967
- WILLIAM HOLT FOWLER IIISpecialist Four · November 19, 1967
- JAMES CARL FREDERICKSergeant First Class · November 19, 1967
- GERALD LEE GEORGE JRSpecialist Four · November 19, 1967
From Madison
- ROSCOE AMMERMANStaff Sergeant · October 3, 1965
- JEAN PIERRE DOWLINGLance Corporal · January 29, 1966
- MICHAEL JOSEPH BANOVEZ JRCorporal · July 18, 1966
- WILLY VASCILLE QUASTStaff Sergeant · January 7, 1967
- THOMAS ERWIN MATUSHPrivate First Class · January 12, 1967
- CHARLES JOHN THOMAMajor · January 12, 1967
- LEONARD DEAN THOMPSONSpecialist Four · April 25, 1967
- GORDON WAYNE STOFLETLance Corporal · June 29, 1967
- VERNON GENE STICHSpecialist Four · August 7, 1967
- MARK WILLARD NEUMANNSpecialist Four · August 25, 1967
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.