Briley, William E.
Navy Technician seaman apprentice

William E. Briley, age 20, from Greene County Jasonville, Indiana .

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Friday, September 24, 1965
Death details: Killed in Japan in a dawn fire that destroyed a two-story communication building that was engaged in classified work relaying messages between ships of the U.S. Seventh Fleet in water off Vietnam and land installations.
Cemetery: West Lawn in Sullivan County

Source: Associated Press (1965), grave marker