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WILLIAM SIMMONS
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 6, 1946 – June 6, 1968
Service recordWilliam Simmons, of Newark, New Jersey, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 6, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 59W, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 59W · Line 15
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- January 6, 1946
- Home of record
- Newark, New Jersey (Essex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 6, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
106 names on the Wall carry the date June 6, 1968; 53 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 59W, Line 15
- CHARLES WALLACE SMITHPrivate First Class · June 6, 1968
- DONALD LEE SMITHLance Corporal · June 6, 1968
- ROBERT LEWIS SMITHPrivate First Class · June 6, 1968
- ERNEST GREGORY WINSTONSergeant · June 6, 1968
From Newark
- KELLY KARL HEINZEStaff Sergeant · August 24, 1965
- LEROY WILLIAMS JRPrivate First Class · October 3, 1965
- RICHARD BURGANSPrivate First Class · October 5, 1965
- SCIP TATESpecialist Four · November 8, 1965
- ROBERT GOINESSergeant · December 5, 1965
- JOHN PRESTON GREENESpecialist Four · December 5, 1965
- WESTOVEL VENABLEPrivate First Class · January 25, 1966
- ROY RANSOM ALLENPrivate First Class · March 21, 1966
- ARNOLD WOODSONSpecialist Four · April 5, 1966
- DONALD EDWIN SIEGWARTHLieutenant (junior grade) · June 17, 1966
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.