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ALLAN GUINN
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 31, 1948 – January 26, 1967
Service recordAllan Guinn, of Bokoshe, Oklahoma, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 26, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 80 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 14E · Line 80
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Unit (as recorded)
- F CO 2 BN 5 MAR 1 MARDIV
- Born
- January 31, 1948
- Home of record
- Bokoshe, Oklahoma (Le Flore County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 26, 1967
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date January 26, 1967; 17 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “F CO 2 BN 5 MAR 1 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 14E, Line 80
- CHARLES CLINTON CURTIS JRPrivate First Class · January 26, 1967
- GARY THOMAS FRALEYPrivate First Class · January 26, 1967
- DELL CONLEY GEISEHospitalman · January 26, 1967
- CLIFTON ODELL HAIRSTONLance Corporal · January 26, 1967
- DAVID JAMISONLance Corporal · January 26, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JAMES PHILLIP BAUERPrivate First Class · Panel 14E, Line 78
- KIRBY WAYNE BRADFORDPrivate First Class · Panel 14E, Line 79
From Bokoshe
- KEITH DAN VINCENTCorporal · May 11, 1968
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.
