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WILLIS LEANDREW MIDGETTE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 13, 1947 – January 4, 1969
Service recordWillis Leandrew Midgette, of Alliance, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 4, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 35W, Line 34 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35W · Line 34
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 Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- AMERICAL DIV
- Born
- November 13, 1947
- Home of record
- Alliance, North Carolina (Pamlico County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 4, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
26 names on the Wall carry the date January 4, 1969; three of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 35W, Line 34
- KENNETH LOREN FOUNTAINFirst Lieutenant · January 4, 1969
- DAVID OWEN HERSHISERSpecialist Four · January 4, 1969
- ALFRED DEAN HILDEBRANDSpecialist Four · January 4, 1969
- GARY LEE JAMIESONPrivate First Class · January 4, 1969
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES JOHN CATELLISpecialist Four · Panel 35W, Line 33
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.