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WILLIAM PAUL WORLEY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 14, 1947 – March 13, 1968
Service recordWilliam Paul Worley, of Altoona, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 13, 1968, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 44E, Line 43 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44E · Line 43
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 Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- July 14, 1947
- Home of record
- Altoona, Pennsylvania (Blair County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 13, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
57 names on the Wall carry the date March 13, 1968; 14 of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 36 of its members that month.
He died in Pleiku 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 44E, Line 43
- DONALD ELLIOT WESTBROOKColonel · March 13, 1968
- MICHAEL LAWRENCE WHITEPrivate First Class · March 13, 1968
- ELSWORTH WILLIFORDStaff Sergeant · March 13, 1968
- JUAN DANIEL AGUIARPrivate First Class · March 14, 1968
- JOHN JACOB GUNTHERSergeant · March 14, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ALVIN JAMES MUNSONPrivate First Class · Panel 44E, Line 39
From Altoona
- JOSEPH WILLIAM SCHUSTERCorporal · June 1, 1966
- ALFRED JAMES KIBLERLance Corporal · October 6, 1966
- DENNIS M SPAHNSpecialist Four · December 28, 1966
- WILLIAM JOEL RICKMANPrivate First Class · April 3, 1967
- EDWARD PHILIP SZEYLLERLieutenant · April 4, 1967
- JAMES EDWARD CAREYLance Corporal · April 21, 1967
- ROBERT CARL DAMBECKMaster Sergeant · July 7, 1967
- NICHOLAS CHARLES BIANCONICorporal · July 24, 1967
- GEAN PRESTON CLAPPERChief Master Sergeant · December 29, 1967
- SHELDON D SCHULTZChief Warrant Officer 3 · January 5, 1968
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.