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WILLIAM PATRICK HIGGINS
First Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps
May 28, 1943 – December 28, 1969
Service recordWilliam Patrick Higgins, of Algona, Iowa, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 28, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 15W, Line 104 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15W · Line 104
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
- First Lieutenant (1STLT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Pilot Ch-46 Qualified (7562)
- Born
- May 28, 1943
- Home of record
- Algona, Iowa (Kossuth County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 28, 1969
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date December 28, 1969; 11 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In December 1969, 509 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 15W, Line 104
- DANIAL GUY HEIDERICHSpecialist Four · December 28, 1969
- RONALD FRANCIS LISCUMCorporal · December 28, 1969
- CHARLES EVERETT MERRITTCorporal · December 28, 1969
- JAMES HOWARD PENCELance Corporal · December 28, 1969
From Algona
- WILLIAM FRANCIS KERNSpecialist Four · October 8, 1966
- ROBERT DALE FARNHAMSergeant · January 14, 1970
- KENNETH ARTHUR THOMASONStaff Sergeant · April 3, 1971
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.