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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Willy Scott Baker.

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WILLY SCOTT BAKER

Chief Petty Officer · U.S. Navy

April 2, 1928 – November 15, 1966

Service record

Willy Scott Baker, of Buffalo, Tennessee, served as a Chief Petty Officer in the U.S. Navy. He died on November 15, 1966, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 38. His name is inscribed on Panel 12E, Line 72 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 12E · Line 72

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Chief Petty Officer (CPO)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Machinery Repairman (MR)
Born
April 2, 1928
Home of record
Buffalo, Tennessee (Multiple County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 15, 1966
Age
38
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Drowning

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30 names on the Wall carry the date November 15, 1966; four of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In November 1966, 641 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 12E, Line 72

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.