GREEN BERETS Hunt, William Balt (Bill)

Guy Gibson: Dambuster
By Geoff Simpson
From the Red Army to S.O.E.
By L.H. Manderstam

John Robertson

Administrator
Staff member
  • SURNAME
Hunt
  • FORENAME
William Balt (Bill)
  • UNIT
5 SF Group (Det A-302) (3 M.S.F.C.)
  • RANK
Staff Sergeant
  • NUMBER
519367997​
  • DATE OF DEATH
4th November 1966
  • AGE
31
  • GRAVESITE
National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific,Honolulu,Hawaii Courts of the Missing (Court B)
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
from Sandpoint,Idaho
born 31.7.1935 Priest River,Idaho
son of Baltzer Isaac and Mabel Golden (nee Shaw) Hunt
husband of Wilma Hunt (married 1959) (2 sons Kenny and Wayne)
former husband of Madeline Claire Hunt (divorced 25.2.1958)
graduated Sandpoint High School 1953
entered service 13.11.1953 Spokane,Washington
11 Airborne Division
101 Airborne Division
SF 1961
awards Silver Star,Bronze Star with V with oak leaf cluster,Army Commendation Medal
MIA 10k NE of Soui Ba,Tay Ninh Province,South Vietnam
body not recovered
declared dead 7.4.1976 as Master Sergeant
Vietnam Veterans Memorial,Washington,D.C. Panel 12E Line 22
Pinecrest Memorial Park,Sandpoint,Bonner County,Idaho (Bonner County War Memorial)​
 
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