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WILLIAM JAMES BURKHARDT
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
April 9, 1947 – October 12, 1967
Service recordWilliam James Burkhardt, of New York, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 12, 1967, in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 93 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27E · Line 93
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Multichannel Transmission Systems (31M)
- Unit (as recorded)
- C CO 52 SIG BN 2 SIG GRP 1 SIG BDE
- Born
- April 9, 1947
- Home of record
- New York, New York (Kings County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 12, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Phuoc Tuy
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date October 12, 1967; he was the only one lost in Phuoc Tuy Province that day. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 27E, Line 93
- GERALD JOHN BROTHERSPrivate First Class · October 12, 1967
- RAYMOND VENSON BROWNINGCorporal · October 12, 1967
- KEVIN ARTHUR CAHILLLance Corporal · October 12, 1967
- JAMES ELLIS CANIDATEPrivate First Class · October 12, 1967
From New York
- WALTER R MCCARTHY JRCaptain · June 16, 1962
- JOHN HOWARD MCCLEANCaptain · August 16, 1963
- DONALD ALLAN MOLLICONEFirst Lieutenant · December 20, 1963
- VINCENT JOSEPH HICKMANCaptain · January 14, 1964
- MARTIN STOCKFEDERPrivate First Class · July 15, 1964
- ROBERT GEORGE ARMSTRONGFirst Lieutenant · October 24, 1964
- DOMINICK SANSONESergeant First Class · December 10, 1964
- DONALD GILBERT COOKColonel · December 31, 1964
- TERENCE MEREDITH MURPHYLieutenant (junior grade) · April 9, 1965
- ROBERT CARL WISTRANDColonel · May 9, 1965
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.