Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: L Troop, 3rd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11B – Infantryman
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Unit awards: Meritorious Unit Citation, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Note: 3rd platoon, Track L-34
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 6-Oct-1945
Hometown: Los Angeles, California
Marital status: Married to Mary A. Williams
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 2-Nov-1965
Start of tour: 23-Aug-1966
Incident date: 13-Feb-1967
Date of casualty: 13-Feb-1967
Age at death: 21
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Artillery/Mortar/Rocket. Artillery, rocket, or mortar. Individual was passenger in armored personnel carrier when hit by hostile recoilless rifle round while on combat operation.
Location of fatality: Phuoc Tuy, South Vietnam, YS 455 855
Place of interment: Lincoln Memorial Park, Carson, California, USA
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