- SURNAME
Williams
- FORENAME
Harold David (Ranger)
- UNIT
Company C (Ranger),75th Infantry
- RANK
Staff Sergeant
- NUMBER
565749235
- DATE OF DEATH
1st August 1969
- AGE
21
- GRAVESITE
Inglewood Park Cemetery,Inglewood,Los Angeles County,California
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
from Los Angeles,California
born 29.10.1947
single
1 year service
award D.S.C. (posthumous),Bronze Star with V with oak leaf cluster,Air Medal
KIA Binh Thuan Province,South Vietnam
Vietnam Veterans Memorial,Washington,D.C. Panel 20W Line 84
DATE OF DEATH:
01-Aug-1969AWARD:
https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?threads/williams-harold-david.30152/CITATION:
Distinguished Service Cross : The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918 (amended by act of July 25, 1963), takes pride in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross (Posthumously) to Staff Sergeant Harold David Williams (ASN: 565749235), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations involving conflict with an armed hostile force in the Republic of Vietnam, while serving with Company C (Ranger), 75th Infantry (Airborne), 173d Airborne Brigade. Staff Sergeant Williams distinguished himself by exceptionally valorous actions on 1 August 1969 while leading a Ranger Team north of Song Moa. Just after perpetrating an ambush on an enemy element, the team was set upon by the main hostile force. Sergeant Williams immediately called in gunships on the communists who quickly surrounded the small team. He initiated a grenade counterassault and repositioned his team to withstand the vicious attack. When a team member fell to enemy fire, Sergeant Williams advanced under a fusillade to render assistance to his comrade. Despite wounds received when an antitank round detonated nearby, he elected to remain with his men, directing their defense. When a brief lull developed in the exchange of fire, Sergeant Williams and one of his men moved outside the perimeter to recover a survival radio dropped by a friendly casualty. In the attempt both were wounded by small arms fire, yet Sergeant Williams again refused evacuation. During the subsequent battle, he succumbed to his wounds. Staff Sergeant Williams' extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty, at the cost of his life, were in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflect great credit upon himself, his unit, and the United States Army.
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