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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of William Karl Elliott.

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WILLIAM KARL ELLIOTT

Private First Class · U.S. Army

December 1, 1947 – September 8, 1967

Service record

William Karl Elliott, of Donnellson, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 8, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 26E, Line 34 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 26E · Line 34

Position of Panel 26E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Radio Operator (05B)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
December 1, 1947
Home of record
Donnellson, Illinois (Montgomery County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 8, 1967
Age
19
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

26 names on the Wall carry the date September 8, 1967. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 39 of its members that month.

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Also on Panel 26E, Line 34

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From Donnellson

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.