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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of William Norman Scott.

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WILLIAM NORMAN SCOTT

Specialist Five · U.S. Army

August 15, 1944 – June 19, 1967

Service record

William Norman Scott, of Casselberry, Florida, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on June 19, 1967, in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 22E, Line 19 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 22E · Line 19

Position of Panel 22E 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. Army
Rank
Specialist Five (SP5)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Combat Engineer (12B)
Unit (as recorded)
11 ARMORED CAV
Born
August 15, 1944
Home of record
Casselberry, Florida (Seminole County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 19, 1967
Age
22
Province
Phuoc Tuy
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

71 names on the Wall carry the date June 19, 1967; nine of them were lost in Phuoc Tuy Province. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 22E, Line 19

Same unit, same day

From Casselberry

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.