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WILLIAM HOWARD RIVERS
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
February 11, 1947 – May 4, 1967
Service recordWilliam Howard Rivers, of Raleigh, North Carolina, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on May 4, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 19E, Line 40 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 19E · Line 40
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
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Equipment Operator (EO)
- Born
- February 11, 1947
- Home of record
- Raleigh, North Carolina (Wake County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 4, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
38 names on the Wall carry the date May 4, 1967; six of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 19E, Line 40
- LEWIS RAYMOND NICKERSONPrivate First Class · May 4, 1967
- OSCAR ROBERT PARROTTLance Corporal · May 4, 1967
- CHARLES EDWARD ROGERSMajor · May 4, 1967
- ELWOOD CHARLES SOVEY JRPetty Officer Third Class · May 4, 1967
From Raleigh
- WILLIAM EDWARD DAVIS JRSecond Lieutenant · December 10, 1965
- CHARLES EDWARD ALSTONPrivate First Class · January 25, 1966
- LEE ARTHUR MOORE JRSpecialist Four · March 30, 1966
- EDWARD SHEPHERDPlatoon Sergeant · May 21, 1966
- JOHN B DAVIS IIISpecialist Four · July 7, 1966
- WAYLAND DUNN JRSergeant · August 14, 1966
- LEON GORDON CHADWICK IIICaptain · November 14, 1966
- JAMES EDWARD OXLEYFirst Lieutenant · November 26, 1966
- SAMUEL ADAMS JAMES JRFirst Lieutenant · December 4, 1966
- DONALD FRANK RHODESPrivate · January 7, 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.