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WILLIAM LEVY WILBURN JR
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
May 9, 1947 – January 15, 1969
Service recordWilliam Levy Wilburn JR, of Memphis, Tennessee, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on January 15, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 34W, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34W · Line 12
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Armor Crewman (11E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 5 INF DIV MECH
- Born
- May 9, 1947
- Home of record
- Memphis, Tennessee (Shelby County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 15, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
44 names on the Wall carry the date January 15, 1969; two of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “5 INF DIV MECH”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 34W, Line 12
- MARVIN FRANCIS WEHRSpecialist Four · January 15, 1969
- ERMIL LEE WHISMANLieutenant Colonel · January 15, 1969
- MARION WITHERSPOONSpecialist Four · January 15, 1969
- JAMES HENRY DIECKMANPrivate First Class · January 16, 1969
From Memphis
- JESSE ALEXANDER GRAYSergeant First Class · June 12, 1964
- ANDREW DAYTON PARKER JRMajor · June 18, 1965
- JOHN CARLOS HARRISSergeant · July 21, 1965
- WALTER LEWIS SMITHPrivate First Class · August 19, 1965
- CLAUDE TALBERT JRPrivate First Class · October 8, 1965
- WILLIAM CLYDE HARPERSergeant · October 10, 1965
- DANIEL DAVID HARDENSergeant · November 1, 1965
- RANDLE TOM WOODSLance Corporal · November 6, 1965
- KELLY EUGENE WHITAKERPrivate First Class · November 8, 1965
- MELVIN FRANK FORTSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
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.