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WILLIAM RICHARD GRAHAM
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
May 29, 1946 – March 6, 1966
Service recordWilliam Richard Graham, of Lorton, Virginia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 6, 1966, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 5E, Line 126 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 5E · Line 126
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Unit (as recorded)
- I CO 3 BN 1 MAR 3 MARDIV
- Born
- May 29, 1946
- Home of record
- Lorton, Virginia (Fairfax County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 6, 1966
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
Eight names on the Wall carry the date March 6, 1966; four of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In March 1966, 564 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “I CO 3 BN 1 MAR 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 14 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 5E, Line 126
- LLOYD CALVERIA WILSONPrivate First Class · March 5, 1966
- CLIFTON WINNINGHAMPlatoon Sergeant · March 5, 1966
- DANNY TRENT HIGGSPrivate First Class · March 6, 1966
- GREGORY JAMES MONROEPrivate First Class · March 6, 1966
Same unit, same day
- DANNY TRENT HIGGSPrivate First Class · Panel 5E, Line 126
- MARIO YBARRAPrivate First Class · Panel 5E, Line 127
- CHARLES LOUIS ZOOGPrivate First Class · Panel 5E, Line 127
From Lorton
- PAUL RANDOLPHE BYRNEPrivate First Class · December 11, 1966
- HARRY QUINCY ROSECaptain · February 21, 1969
- ROBERT F MCDONALD IIPrivate First Class · March 25, 1969
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.