The Last Combat Casualty In Vietnam

Bill Nolde, a farm boy from Michigan, is the last to die.

January 27, 1973

Colonel William Benedict Nolde became the last official American combat casualty of the Vietnam War on this date, the 45,914th confirmed combat death and the 57,597th in the total list of Americans killed during the conflict. In what today almost seems senseless, Nolde was killed by artillery fire eleven hours before the cessation of all…