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WILLIAM LUTHER OVERSTREET
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 7, 1948 – April 9, 1969
Service recordWilliam Luther Overstreet, of Elk Horn, Kentucky, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 9, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 46 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27W · Line 46
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- August 7, 1948
- Home of record
- Elk Horn, Kentucky (Taylor County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 9, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date April 9, 1969; two of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 22 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 27W, Line 46
- DAN STEVEN LONGPrivate First Class · April 9, 1969
- DANNY LEON PATRICKPrivate First Class · April 9, 1969
- ROBERT ANDREW PORTEPrivate First Class · April 9, 1969
- MICHAEL J VERHAEGHESpecialist Four · April 9, 1969
From Elk Horn
- HAROLD MORRIS HARDINSergeant · July 25, 1970
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.