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WILLIAM LEE BRIDGES
Private First Class · U.S. Army
June 13, 1947 – February 4, 1968
Service recordWilliam Lee Bridges, of Sulphur, Louisiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 4, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 37E, Line 19 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37E · Line 19
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- June 13, 1947
- Home of record
- Sulphur, Louisiana
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 4, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
68 names on the Wall carry the date February 4, 1968; two of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 61 of its members that month.
He died in Hua Nghia Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 37E, Line 19
- LEONARD BREAUXPrivate · February 4, 1968
- HENRY ELOY CASIASSergeant · February 4, 1968
- RUSSELL DAVID CHASEPrivate First Class · February 4, 1968
- LARRY GENE CLARKLance Corporal · February 4, 1968
From Sulphur
- TERRY LEE ELLENDERCorporal · April 8, 1967
- RUSSELL ELWARD PAGELance Corporal · June 21, 1967
- DOUGLAS JOSEPH CRADEURSergeant · May 5, 1968
- JOHN THOMAS HOSKINSCaptain · May 6, 1968
- RUSSELL JOSEPH WEEKLEYPrivate First Class · June 11, 1968
- LARRY JOHN LAPOINTSergeant · August 18, 1968
- HALTON RAMSEY VINCENTCaptain · September 30, 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.