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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of William W McCarrick.

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WILLIAM W MCCARRICK

Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army

July 4, 1938 – October 3, 1967

Service record

William W McCarrick, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on October 3, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 45 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 27E · Line 45

Position of Panel 27E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Army
Rank
Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Area Intelligence Technician (972A)
Born
July 4, 1938
Home of record
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Allegheny County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 3, 1967
Age
29
Province
Tay Ninh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

21 names on the Wall carry the date October 3, 1967; two of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 27E, Line 45

From Pittsburgh

All 256 names from Pittsburgh →

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.