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WILLIAM PERRY LYONS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 16, 1951 – July 4, 1970
Service recordWilliam Perry Lyons, of Lombard, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 4, 1970, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 9W, Line 118 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 9W · Line 118
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
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
- Born
- September 16, 1951
- Home of record
- Lombard, Illinois (Du Page County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 4, 1970
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
19 names on the Wall carry the date July 4, 1970; six of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In July 1970, 495 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM”, his unit in the record, lost 33 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 9W, Line 118
- JERRY OWEN EMERINECorporal · July 4, 1970
- WILLIAM THOMAS HANEYLance Corporal · July 4, 1970
- MARK THOMAS JERNIGANWarrant Officer 1 · July 4, 1970
- GEORGE JOHNSONPrivate First Class · July 4, 1970
From Lombard
- WILLIAM ROSS ROMANOPrivate First Class · October 12, 1965
- RICHARD PHILLIP ROBBLEYSpecialist Four · November 11, 1965
- DIETER HANS BURGERStaff Sergeant · September 5, 1967
- CHARLES DENNIS PEKNYSpecialist Four · July 25, 1968
- THOMAS FOREST HERRINGCorporal · December 17, 1970
- JOHN SIMMONS WEAVERCorporal · January 16, 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.