Ripley, William L.
Air Force Sergeant

William L. Ripley, age 24, from Fort Walton Beach, Florida, Okaloosa county.

Parents: Leon Ripley (killed three months earlier in Vietnam when the jeep he was driving was hit by enemy fire).

Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Chicopee , Massachusetts High graduate

Date of death: Thursday, August 13, 1970
Death details: Killed in a helicopter crash in Thailand

Source: National Archives, Pensacola New Journal (1970)