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WILLIE OVERSTREET JR
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
August 26, 1935 – June 11, 1968
Service recordWillie Overstreet JR, of Gainesville, Texas, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on June 11, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 32. His name is inscribed on Panel 58W, Line 28 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 58W · Line 28
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- August 26, 1935
- Home of record
- Gainesville, Texas (Cooke County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 11, 1968
- Age
- 32
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Heart Related
Context · from the records
What was happening
51 names on the Wall carry the date June 11, 1968; he was the only one lost in Tây Ninh Province that day. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 45 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 58W, Line 28
- ROBERT JOSEPH IRWINLance Corporal · June 11, 1968
- RAYMOND CASTILLO MORAPrivate First Class · June 11, 1968
- JAMES ALVIN PHIPPSPrivate First Class · June 11, 1968
- DWIGHT ANTHONY PRICEPrivate First Class · June 11, 1968
Same unit, same day
- GORDON ABNER HAWKINSCaptain · Panel 58W, Line 25
- TERRY LEE IVENERPrivate First Class · Panel 58W, Line 26
- DONALD WAYNE JACOBSFirst Lieutenant · Panel 58W, Line 26
From Gainesville
- JERRY LYNE STEEDSpecialist Four · June 24, 1967
- THOMAS NEAL BREWERLance Corporal · January 7, 1968
- JOE LESLIE BIFFLE JRSpecialist Four · January 21, 1968
- DONALD JOE BOAZPrivate First Class · April 12, 1968
- JERRY DON GIBBSPrivate First Class · December 30, 1968
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.