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WILLIS LEE FURNEY
Sergeant · U.S. Army
August 13, 1946 – March 9, 1967
Service recordWillis Lee Furney, of Macon, Georgia, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 9, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 44 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16E · Line 44
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 (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- August 13, 1946
- Home of record
- Macon, Georgia (Bibb County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 9, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
38 names on the Wall carry the date March 9, 1967; three of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 45 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 16E, Line 44
- JESSE ROMERO CASTROPrivate First Class · March 9, 1967
- MCKINLEY CAUGHMAN JRSpecialist Four · March 9, 1967
- IVEL DOAN FREEMANMajor · March 9, 1967
- FREDDIE LYNN FRIARPrivate First Class · March 9, 1967
Same unit, same day
- GERALD EDWARD BARTRAMPrivate · Panel 16E, Line 42
- FREDDIE LYNN FRIARPrivate First Class · Panel 16E, Line 44
From Macon
- EDDIE BROWN JRPrivate First Class · November 16, 1965
- RALPH LEON HINSONStaff Sergeant · December 17, 1965
- HAZE HOWARD IIISpecialist Four · July 3, 1966
- JIMMY ALVIN JOHNSONSergeant · September 23, 1966
- WAYNE THAD STRICKLANDCorporal · September 24, 1966
- WILLIAM SHERWOOD COCHRANPrivate First Class · November 6, 1966
- RALLS HAWKINSPrivate First Class · November 21, 1966
- SANDY LEE ROSSPrivate First Class · January 11, 1967
- FRANKLIN DWIGHT RUISPrivate First Class · March 19, 1967
- DON CURTIS BENFIELDPrivate · April 8, 1967
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.