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WILLIE C WALKER
Corporal · U.S. Army
January 3, 1948 – December 12, 1968
Service recordWillie C Walker, of Trenton, North Carolina, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on December 12, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36W · Line 13
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Tactical Wire Operations Specialist (36K)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- January 3, 1948
- Home of record
- Trenton, North Carolina (Jones County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 12, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
17 names on the Wall carry the date December 12, 1968; two of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 17 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 36W, Line 13
- JOHN SCOTT ALBRIGHT IICaptain · December 13, 1968
- DONALD RAY ALLEYFirst Lieutenant · December 13, 1968
- CHRISTOPHER ORAN BOLSTERSergeant · December 13, 1968
- RONALD LEO NIEWAHNERSergeant · December 13, 1968
From Trenton
- AARON CRUSOE MURRELLPrivate First Class · October 30, 1965
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.