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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of William Michael Livingston.

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WILLIAM MICHAEL LIVINGSTON

Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

July 27, 1947 – July 25, 1968

Service record

William Michael Livingston, of Columbus, Ohio, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 25, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 50W, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 50W · Line 7

Position of Panel 50W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Combat Engineer (1371)
Born
July 27, 1947
Home of record
Columbus, Ohio (Multiple County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 25, 1968
Age
20
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

40 names on the Wall carry the date July 25, 1968; seven of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 50W, Line 7

From Columbus

All 226 names from Columbus →

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.