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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Adelbert Earl McRae.

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ADELBERT EARL MCRAE

Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps

March 12, 1935 – December 21, 1968

Service record

Adelbert Earl McRae, of Oswego, New York, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 21, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 33. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 58 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 36W · Line 58

Position of Panel 36W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Combat Engineer (1371)
Born
March 12, 1935
Home of record
Oswego, New York (Oswego County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 21, 1968
Age
33
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

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29 names on the Wall carry the date December 21, 1968; three of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 36W, Line 58

Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.