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WILLIAM LLOYD MCFARLAND
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
May 27, 1949 – September 22, 1968
Service recordWilliam Lloyd McFarland, of Granite City, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 22, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 43W, Line 64 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43W · Line 64
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Machinegunner (0331)
- Born
- May 27, 1949
- Home of record
- Granite City, Illinois (Madison County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 22, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date September 22, 1968; five of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 43W, Line 64
- WILLIE RAY LAYPrivate First Class · September 22, 1968
- RANDALL PATRICK LESSSergeant · September 22, 1968
- DAVID LOUIS LICATEPrivate First Class · September 22, 1968
- JOSEPH MARK MAZZONESpecialist Four · September 22, 1968
From Granite City
- ROBERT EDWARD EMERYPrivate · December 9, 1965
- GENE E CHEPELYPrivate First Class · February 7, 1966
- JOHN BERNARD CAUSEYCaptain · February 25, 1966
- LOREN EUGENE BRADLEYPrivate First Class · April 29, 1966
- RALPH ROGER JUSTICEStaff Sergeant · January 6, 1967
- JAMES RAY DOWDYPrivate First Class · May 3, 1967
- JOE CARL LEUTENEGGERPrivate First Class · July 2, 1967
- RICHARD EUGENE SHILTSpecialist Four · August 17, 1967
- RICHARD JOHN GIEBECorporal · November 9, 1967
- MICHAEL EDWARD ADAMSSergeant · November 19, 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.