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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Willie Edward McIntosh.

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WILLIE EDWARD MCINTOSH

Private First Class · U.S. Army

January 12, 1951 – November 11, 1969

Service record

Willie Edward McIntosh, of Orlando, Florida, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 11, 1969, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 16W, Line 59 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 16W · Line 59

Position of Panel 16W 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
January 12, 1951
Home of record
Orlando, Florida (Orange County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 11, 1969
Age
18
Province
Tay Ninh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

29 names on the Wall carry the date November 11, 1969; four of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In November 1969, 660 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 74 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 16W, Line 59

Same unit, same day

From Orlando

All 93 names from Orlando →

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.