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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Willie Frank Amos.

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WILLIE FRANK AMOS

Private · U.S. Marine Corps

October 21, 1946 – April 19, 1967

Service record

Willie Frank Amos, of Atlanta, Georgia, served as a Private in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 19, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 46 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 18E · Line 46

Position of Panel 18E 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. Marine Corps
Rank
Private (PVT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
October 21, 1946
Home of record
Atlanta, Georgia (Fulton County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 19, 1967
Age
20
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

25 names on the Wall carry the date April 19, 1967; eight of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 18E, Line 46

From Atlanta

All 188 names from Atlanta →

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.