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WILLIAM TONY BROCK
Private First Class · U.S. Army
June 6, 1947 – November 10, 1967
Service recordWilliam Tony Brock, of Wilburton, Oklahoma, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 10, 1967, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 29E, Line 69 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29E · Line 69
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- June 6, 1947
- Home of record
- Wilburton, Oklahoma (Latimer County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 10, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date November 10, 1967; eight of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 142 of its members that month.
He died in Kon Tum Province while the Battle of Đắk Tô was under way. Around Đắk Tô in the Central Highlands (3–23 November 1967), the 4th Infantry Division and the 173rd Airborne Brigade fought North Vietnamese regiments for the hills along the border, ending with the assault on Hill 875 on Thanksgiving Day. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 29E, Line 69
- ALFRED TIMMSPrivate First Class · November 10, 1967
- VICTOR R VELAZQUEZ-LOPEZPrivate First Class · November 10, 1967
- JIMMIE CARL WALLACESpecialist Five · November 10, 1967
- RALPH HARRY BARLETT JRPrivate First Class · November 11, 1967
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM H RICHARDSON JRPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 65
- JERRY DON JONESPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 67
- NORMAN JAMES LIVINGSTONPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 68
- BERNHARDT WILLIAM MILLERPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 68
- JIMMIE CARL WALLACESpecialist Five · Panel 29E, Line 69
From Wilburton
- LEON CANFIELDSergeant First Class · December 8, 1967
- CLYDE ELMER CARTER JRPrivate First Class · February 1, 1968
- LARRY COLEMAN KNIGHTLieutenant · April 9, 1970
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.