John Williams...09Aug67...NMCB-1

8/9/67 SW3 John K. Williams, Philadelphia, PA - Bai Van Pass Danang NMCB 1

John Kirby Williams
Steelworker 3rd Class
PERSONAL DATA
Home of Record: Philadelphia, PA
Date of birth: 06/21/1943
MILITARY DATA
Service: United States Navy
Grade at loss: E4
Rank: Steelworker 3rd Class
ID No: 7792384
MOS: 0000: Not Recorded
Length Service: 03
Unit: D CO, NMCB-1, 3RD NC BDE, USNAVFORV
CASUALTY DATA
Start Tour: ------
Incident Date: 08/09/1967
Casualty Date: 08/09/1967
Age at Loss: 24
Location: Bai Van Pass, Danang, Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam
Remains: Body recovered
Casualty Type: Hostile, died outright
Casualty Reason: Ground casualty
Casualty Detail: Other explosive device

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John K. Williams
New Britain, Bucks County

"To know him was to love him," Williams' father recalled. The Navy steelworker third class attended Mercy Technical High School before learning carpentry and then joining the Navy in. March 1966. Williams loved sports, especially scuba diving, and spent many days diving in quarries and lakes in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. He was assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 6 in Vietnam. Williams died on Aug. 9, 1967. He was 24 years old. Survivors included his parents.
.... from The Philadelphia Daily News
Posted by: Robert Greer