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WILLIAM JACK WILLIAMS
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 24, 1946 – June 27, 1967
Service recordWilliam Jack Williams, of Elizabethton, Tennessee, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 27, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 22E, Line 75 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 22E · Line 75
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
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- January 24, 1946
- Home of record
- Elizabethton, Tennessee (Carter County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 27, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
41 names on the Wall carry the date June 27, 1967; 31 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 22E, Line 75
- IRA WINARD WILLIAMSLance Corporal · June 27, 1967
- KENNETH RAY WRIGHTLance Corporal · June 27, 1967
- ROGER LEE BLAKEPrivate First Class · June 28, 1967
- THOMAS EDWARD BROOMEPrivate First Class · June 28, 1967
From Elizabethton
- CHARLES EDWARD FULTONAirman First Class · January 2, 1965
- JAMES MITCHELL CORNETTPrivate First Class · March 24, 1966
- DALE ALONZO JOHNSONMajor · October 27, 1966
- GARY MURRAYSpecialist Four · May 24, 1967
- JOHN PAUL AVERYLance Corporal · October 14, 1967
- BILLY JOE ELLISStaff Sergeant · January 3, 1968
- ROBERT LEE SHAFFERLance Corporal · February 2, 1968
- THOMAS CHARLES TREADWAYSpecialist Five · August 12, 1968
- ROY HASKEL WILSONCaptain · October 22, 1968
- FREDDIE RAY GUINNCorporal · February 23, 1969
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.