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WILLIE B CATLING
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 31, 1947 – July 2, 1968
Service recordWillie B Catling, of Liberty, Mississippi, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 2, 1968, in Kien Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 54W, Line 35 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 54W · Line 35
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- October 31, 1947
- Home of record
- Liberty, Mississippi (Amite County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 2, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Kien Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
26 names on the Wall carry the date July 2, 1968; three of them were lost in Kien Tuong Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 29 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 54W, Line 35
- DARELD NORVAL BORDERSSergeant · July 2, 1968
- JAMES ALFRED BRADY SRWarrant Officer 1 · July 2, 1968
- ALBERT LEROY BROMLEYSergeant · July 2, 1968
- DOUGLAS ALLEN CANNSpecialist Four · July 2, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RONALD WAYNE SEBRINGSergeant First Class · Panel 54W, Line 38
From Liberty
- JOHN HILTON BLALOCKCaptain · April 1, 1968
- DANIEL SULLIVANSpecialist Five · July 9, 1969
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.