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WILLIAM JOSEPH DUGGAN
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
October 24, 1946 – January 6, 1967
Service recordWilliam Joseph Duggan, of Lynwood, California, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on January 6, 1967, in North Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 13E, Line 118 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 13E · Line 118
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Aviation Electronics Technician (AT)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 7 FLT
- Born
- October 24, 1946
- Home of record
- Lynwood, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 6, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Ship/Submarine Accident At Sea (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
Nine names on the Wall carry the date January 6, 1967. In January 1967, 638 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 North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 13E, Line 118
- THOMAS EDWARD TOWNSLEYPrivate · January 5, 1967
- TONY EVERETTPrivate First Class · January 6, 1967
- CHARLES DAVID GABRIELAirman Second Class · January 6, 1967
- JOHN CARL GRESENSLance Corporal · January 6, 1967
From Lynwood
- RICHARD ALBERT SCHMITZPrivate First Class · May 13, 1966
- RONALD LEE ENGLANDLance Corporal · September 19, 1966
- RONALD LEE LAKELance Corporal · July 6, 1967
- GARY FRANCIS GATTICorporal · August 11, 1967
- PAUL LESLIE CLARKSpecialist Four · September 6, 1967
- JUAN RAMIREZSpecialist Five · September 8, 1967
- ROBERT SAMUEL FERRULLAPrivate First Class · November 13, 1967
- GEORGE STEPHEN SEHISergeant · January 9, 1968
- DONALD BYRON JONESLance Corporal · May 18, 1968
- RANDALL STEVEN HILLSpecialist Four · July 13, 1968
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.