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WILLIE JAMES PAYNE
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
August 17, 1936 – September 11, 1967
Service recordWillie James Payne, of Cross Hill, South Carolina, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 11, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 26E, Line 55 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26E · Line 55
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- August 17, 1936
- Home of record
- Cross Hill, South Carolina (Laurens County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 11, 1967
- Age
- 31
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
20 names on the Wall carry the date September 11, 1967; five of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 57 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 26E, Line 55
- THOMAS DALE CULPCaptain · September 11, 1967
- MICHAEL THOMAS FINCHPrivate First Class · September 11, 1967
- STEPHEN ROMO FORDPrivate First Class · September 11, 1967
- JOE GILLESPIEStaff Sergeant · September 11, 1967
Same unit, same day
- MICHAEL THOMAS FINCHPrivate First Class · Panel 26E, Line 55
- STEPHEN ROMO FORDPrivate First Class · Panel 26E, Line 55
- DAVIES LEE JONESPrivate First Class · Panel 26E, Line 56
- EMERY CAPERS SULLIVAN IIICorporal · Panel 26E, Line 58
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.