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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 Albert James Darling III.

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ALBERT JAMES DARLING III

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

May 7, 1946 – May 10, 1967

Service record

Albert James Darling III, of Craryville, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 10, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 19E, Line 79 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 19E · Line 79

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Wireman (2511)
Born
May 7, 1946
Home of record
Craryville, New York (Columbia County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 10, 1967
Age
21
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

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62 names on the Wall carry the date May 10, 1967; 34 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 19E, Line 79

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.