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WILLIAM ROBERT LUCAS
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
October 9, 1948 – March 9, 1969
Service recordWilliam Robert Lucas, of Beallsville, Ohio, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on March 9, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 30W, Line 91 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 30W · Line 91
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- BLT 3 26 MAR 9 MAB
- Born
- October 9, 1948
- Home of record
- Beallsville, Ohio (Monroe County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 9, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
72 names on the Wall carry the date March 9, 1969; five of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “BLT 3 26 MAR 9 MAB”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 30W, Line 91
- LARRY DALE MATHENYPrivate First Class · March 9, 1969
- RALPH EMERSON MAYERS IIICorporal · March 9, 1969
- JOSEPH HARRY MEARSSpecialist Four · March 9, 1969
- ROBIN BREWER MILLERSergeant · March 9, 1969
From Beallsville
- JACK PITTMANPrivate First Class · July 25, 1966
- DUANE THEODORE GREENLEEPrivate First Class · August 25, 1966
- CHARLES GLENN SCHNEGGCorporal · December 4, 1967
- RICHARD LEE RUCKERSpecialist Four · May 30, 1968
- PHILLIP MICHAEL BRANDONSpecialist Four · March 7, 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.