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WILLIAM SCOTT CUTTER
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
April 5, 1943 – December 3, 1967
Service recordWilliam Scott Cutter, of Stillwater, Oklahoma, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 3, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 28 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31E · Line 28
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Armored Reconnaissance Unit Commander (1204)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- April 5, 1943
- Home of record
- Stillwater, Oklahoma (Payne County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 3, 1967
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date December 3, 1967; six of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 96 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 31E, Line 28
- GEORGE FRANKLIN ANTONITISCorporal · December 3, 1967
- RICHARD CHARLES BALUKONISCorporal · December 3, 1967
- WILLIAM MICHAEL DALEYCorporal · December 3, 1967
- LAURIER DON DEROSIERSergeant · December 3, 1967
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM MICHAEL DALEYCorporal · Panel 31E, Line 28
From Stillwater
- MICHAEL BRUCE FULLERLance Corporal · June 9, 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.