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WILLIAM NEIL FLINT
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
June 12, 1947 – February 9, 1968
Service recordWilliam Neil Flint, of Naples, Florida, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on February 9, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 38E, Line 49 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38E · Line 49
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Unit (as recorded)
- D CO 2 BN 1 INF 196 LIB
- Born
- June 12, 1947
- Home of record
- Naples, Florida (Collier County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 9, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
107 names on the Wall carry the date February 9, 1968; 39 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Nam 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 38E, Line 49
- CECIL WAYNE EPPSPrivate First Class · February 9, 1968
- LEONARD ELZY EULITTPrivate First Class · February 9, 1968
- JOHN CARR GLESENKAMPPrivate First Class · February 9, 1968
- WILLIAM JACOB GOLDBERGPrivate First Class · February 9, 1968
From Naples
- DALE VINCENT BREMERMAN JRPrivate First Class · March 1, 1967
- GEORGE DENNIS JOHNSONPrivate First Class · March 16, 1967
- ROBERT HUGH STEELECorporal · August 28, 1967
- JOHN LUMSDEN BARNESSpecialist Five · January 19, 1968
- CHARLIE C ANTHONYPrivate First Class · May 12, 1969
- FREDERICK RICHARD LEVINSSergeant · June 16, 1970
- LARRY GENE BATCHERPrivate First Class · October 12, 1970
- WILLIAM EDWARD DILLENDERSergeant · March 20, 1971
- JON HUBBARD SANDERSTechnical Sergeant · April 15, 1972
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.