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WILLIAM JOSEPH MCFARLAND
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
August 31, 1947 – April 27, 1969
Service recordWilliam Joseph McFarland, of Virginia Beach, Virginia, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on April 27, 1969, offshore, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 26W, Line 65 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26W · Line 65
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. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- August 31, 1947
- Home of record
- Virginia Beach, Virginia (Virginia Beach (City) County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 27, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Offshore
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
45 names on the Wall carry the date April 27, 1969. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 35 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 26W, Line 65
- LARRY DEAN LOWERYSpecialist Six · April 27, 1969
- LAWRENCE WILLIAM MAHURTERPrivate First Class · April 27, 1969
- PHILLIP SHERMAN MOHNIKEChief Warrant Officer 2 · April 27, 1969
- ARVIN LEE OQUINNPrivate First Class · April 27, 1969
Same unit, same day
- JAMES DENNIS CROWSpecialist Five · Panel 26W, Line 61
- ALAN BRIAN DENHOFFSpecialist Five · Panel 26W, Line 62
- LARRY DEAN LOWERYSpecialist Six · Panel 26W, Line 65
From Virginia Beach
- RALPH WINDALL CARTWRIGHTPrivate First Class · November 15, 1965
- WILLIAM A BURNETTPrivate First Class · December 29, 1965
- MARVIN BONNEY SMITH JRSpecialist Four · January 11, 1966
- ALLEN THOMAS WHEATONPrivate First Class · May 12, 1966
- RONALD EDWARD ANGESpecialist Four · May 21, 1966
- DENNIS R BALFOURPrivate First Class · September 10, 1966
- STERLING SADLER WOODSCorporal · May 10, 1967
- OTTO ANDREAE SEAMANS JRWarrant Officer 1 · May 18, 1967
- ROBERT THOMAS BOYKINPrivate First Class · May 20, 1967
- HAROLD EARL YOUNGSpecialist Five · July 27, 1967
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.