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WILLIAM WALLACE MCGREW III
Sergeant · U.S. Army
December 14, 1945 – November 27, 1967
Service recordWilliam Wallace McGrew III, of Sugar Grove, Ohio, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 27, 1967, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 98 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 30E · Line 98
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Radio Operator (05B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- December 14, 1945
- Home of record
- Sugar Grove, Ohio (Fairfield County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 27, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date November 27, 1967; two of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 30E, Line 98
- SAMUEL LEGLEUSergeant · November 27, 1967
- JOEL ALOIS MATUSEKSecond Lieutenant · November 27, 1967
- MERLE BRUCE MORROWLance Corporal · November 27, 1967
- GREIG ROBERT PARKHURSTPrivate First Class · November 27, 1967
Same unit, same day
- RUDOLFO CHAVEZStaff Sergeant · Panel 30E, Line 96
- SAMUEL SILVER THERIAULTMaster Sergeant · Panel 30E, Line 100
From Sugar Grove
- WILLIAM EUGENE AILESPrivate First Class · December 8, 1967
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.