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WILLIAM JOSEPH MURRAY JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 10, 1948 – November 18, 1968
Service recordWilliam Joseph Murray JR, of Carbondale, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 18, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 38W, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38W · Line 7
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 Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Food Service Specialist (94B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 82 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- August 10, 1948
- Home of record
- Carbondale, Pennsylvania (Lackawanna County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 18, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
16 names on the Wall carry the date November 18, 1968; two of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 82nd Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 38W, Line 7
- WILLIAM BENJAMIN EZELLLance Corporal · November 18, 1968
- DAVID RODNEY HOLTPrivate First Class · November 18, 1968
- DALE WILLIAM JOHNSONPrivate First Class · November 18, 1968
- FRANK MARTINEZPrivate First Class · November 18, 1968
From Carbondale
- RICHARD JAMES DUPLESSISSpecialist Four · July 31, 1971
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.