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WILLIAM T MORRIS III
Lieutenant (junior grade) · U.S. Navy
December 21, 1943 – June 6, 1968
Service recordWilliam T Morris III, of Mobile, Alabama, served as a Lieutenant (junior grade) in the U.S. Navy. He died on June 6, 1968, in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 59W, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 59W · Line 9
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
- Lieutenant (junior grade) (LTJG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Url No Warfare Specialty (1100)
- Born
- December 21, 1943
- Home of record
- Mobile, Alabama (Mobile County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 6, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Khanh Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
106 names on the Wall carry the date June 6, 1968; four of them were lost in Khanh Hoa Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 59W, Line 9
- ALFRED MCCULLOUGHPlatoon Sergeant · June 6, 1968
- NORMAN LAFOREST MCKENNEYPetty Officer Second Class · June 6, 1968
- LARRY HAROLD MORGANSpecialist Five · June 6, 1968
- ANDREW PERRY JRCorporal · June 6, 1968
From Mobile
- ANDREW C MITCHELL IIICaptain · April 8, 1963
- DAVID RUDOLPH DICKENSFirst Sergeant · November 1, 1965
- EDDIE LEE HILL JRCorporal · November 4, 1965
- SHERMAN ELDRIDGE OTISPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- NATHANIEL EARL CARTER IIISergeant · November 25, 1965
- ROBERT EDWARD BEXLEYPrivate First Class · January 30, 1966
- ROBERT LOUIS BEATONSergeant · February 22, 1966
- JOSEPH EMMETT LILLEYPrivate First Class · May 14, 1966
- JAMES DWIGHT NEWCOMBLance Corporal · July 17, 1966
- TIMOTHY SCOTT DAVIESLance Corporal · July 20, 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.