Rank: Private First Class
Unit: B Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11B – Infantryman
Awards: Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Regular
Date of birth: 4-Jul-1948
Hometown: Hometown, Illinois
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Start of tour: 10-Mar-1967
Incident date: 17-Apr-1967
Date of casualty: 25-Aug-1967
Age at death: 19
Cause of death: Hostile, died of wounds. Grenade. Multiple fragmentation wounds.
William James McCue died on 25 Aug 1967 in Edward Hines VA Hospital, Hines, Illinois, as the result of wounds received in Vietnam on 17 Apr 1967 when the convoy which he was in came under hostile mortar attack.
Four Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
PVT Albert Franklin Cleveland
SP4 Royd Steve Kerley Jr
SP4 Donald Lynwood Martinez
PFC William James McCue
Location of fatality: Long Khanh, South Vietnam
Place of interment: Saint Mary Catholic Cemetery and Mausoleum, Evergreen Park, Illinois, USA
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