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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 J Bryant JR.

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WILLIAM J BRYANT JR

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

May 27, 1948 – February 10, 1967

Service record

William J Bryant JR, of Phoenix, Arizona, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 10, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 15E, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 15E · Line 13

Position of Panel 15E 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
Regular
Occupation
Assaultman (0351)
Born
May 27, 1948
Home of record
Phoenix, Arizona (Maricopa County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 10, 1967
Age
18
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

14 names on the Wall carry the date February 10, 1967; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In February 1967, 767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 15E, Line 13

From Phoenix

All 207 names from Phoenix →

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.