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ALLEN TWIGGS MERRITT IV
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
March 7, 1949 – February 2, 1968
Service recordAllen Twiggs Merritt IV, of Atmore, Alabama, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 2, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 36E, Line 79 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36E · Line 79
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- March 7, 1949
- Home of record
- Atmore, Alabama (Escambia County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 2, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
130 names on the Wall carry the date February 2, 1968; eight of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Huế was under way. At Huế (31 January–2 March 1968), Marines, soldiers of the 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne divisions and South Vietnamese troops fought house to house for 26 days to retake the old imperial capital, the longest urban battle of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 36E, Line 79
- HUGH R MCKIBBIN JRFirst Lieutenant · February 2, 1968
- DENNIS J MILLERSpecialist Four · February 2, 1968
- LARRY LEVERN MITCHELLPrivate First Class · February 2, 1968
- CHARLES WASSEL PERMALOFFSpecialist Four · February 2, 1968
From Atmore
- JACK ELLIOTT CLEMMONSSpecialist Five · December 18, 1965
- ELMER JACK TAYLORSergeant · March 30, 1966
- JAMES MATHEW KELLYSpecialist Four · November 8, 1966
- LARRY EUGENE GONZALEZPrivate First Class · December 21, 1967
- RICHARD BENJAMINCorporal · February 6, 1968
- LARRY BENJAMIN THOMASSpecialist Four · January 15, 1969
- JAMES RAYFORD GOHAGINSpecialist Five · May 13, 1969
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.