Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: G Troop, 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11D – Armor Reconnaissance Specialist
Awards: Bronze Star Medal with Valor Device, 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: Selected Service
Date of birth: 10-Jun-1946
Hometown: Buffalo, New York
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Start of tour: 1-Dec-1966
Incident date: 6-Jun-1967
Date of casualty: 6-Jun-1967
Age at death: 20
Cause of death: Hostile, died of wounds. Unknown. Other causes.
Willie Lee Page was passenger in an armored personnel carrier when the vehicle hit a hostile mine while on combat operation.
Three Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
PFC Francis Leo Collins
SSG Charles William Kane
SP4 Willie Lee Page
Location of fatality: Quang Ngai, South Vietnam
Place of interment: Edgemont Cemetery, Anniston, Alabama, USA
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BRONZE STAR MEDAL
WITH VALOR DEVICE
POSTHUMOUS
SPECIALIST FOUR WILLIE LEE PAGE
5 JUNE 1967
G TROOP, 2nd SQUADRON
11TH ARMORED CAVALRY REGIMENT
Specialist Four Page distinguished himself by heroic actions on 5 June 1967 in the Republic of Vietnam. On this date Specialist Page was serving as a machine gunner in an armored cavalry assault vehicle that was conducting a search and destroy operation near Chu Lai, Republic of Vietnam. During the operation, the platoon came under heavy sniper fire. Specialist Page immediately returned a heavy volume of fire on the sniper positions. The vehicle next to him hit and detonated an anti-tank mine and burst into flames. As other elements attempted to rescue the crew that was trapped in the burning vehicle, Specialist Page supported their movement with a heavy volume of fire with his machine gun. While moving away from the blazing armored cavalry assault vehicle to a more advantageous position, Specialist Page’s vehicle detonated a second anti-tank mine and he was mortally wounded. His outstanding display of aggressiveness, devotion to duty, and bravery are in keeping with the finest tradition of the military service and reflect great credit upon himself, Task Force OREGON, and the United States Army.
Headquarters, Task Force Oregon (Provisional) General Orders No. 58 (26 June 1967)