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WILLIAM JAMES HUTTON
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
August 25, 1946 – March 14, 1969
Service recordWilliam James Hutton, of Columbia, Missouri, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on March 14, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 29W, Line 38 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29W · Line 38
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 Second Class (PO2)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 7 FLT
- Born
- August 25, 1946
- Home of record
- Columbia, Missouri (Boone County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 14, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date March 14, 1969; 15 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “7 FLT”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while Operation Dewey Canyon was under way. In Operation Dewey Canyon (22 January–18 March 1969) the 9th Marines struck North Vietnamese base areas in the Đa Krông and A Shau valleys, the last major Marine offensive of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 29W, Line 38
- SYDNEY CLAUDE HOWARDLance Corporal · March 14, 1969
- WAYMON LOUIS JONES JRCorporal · March 14, 1969
- ANDREW JOSEPH KUKURUDAPrivate First Class · March 14, 1969
- STEPHEN WAYNE LUCIASpecialist Four · March 14, 1969
From Columbia
- JERRY DALE BASNETTCorporal · May 12, 1967
- DANIEL JOSEPH HEIBELCorporal · August 12, 1967
- STEPHEN LEE IRVINCorporal · September 10, 1967
- BILLY JOE WYATTLance Corporal · June 11, 1968
- JIMMIE LYNN KRATZBERGPrivate First Class · August 13, 1968
- LON DAVIS RICHARDSCaptain · August 23, 1968
- JON ALAN RIPPEEPrivate First Class · September 26, 1968
- DALE RAYMOND JACKSONPrivate First Class · February 10, 1969
- DOUGLAS GLYN EDWARDSSpecialist Four · March 20, 1969
- CHUBBY DEAN LOWREYSpecialist Five · October 28, 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.