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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 Alton Oneil Flagg.

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ALTON ONEIL FLAGG

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps

October 7, 1935 – November 23, 1966

Service record

Alton Oneil Flagg, of Dickinson, Texas, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on November 23, 1966, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 12E, Line 112 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 12E · Line 112

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Photographer (4631)
Born
October 7, 1935
Home of record
Dickinson, Texas (Galveston County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 23, 1966
Age
31
Province
Gia Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Stroke

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11 names on the Wall carry the date November 23, 1966; he was the only one lost in Gia Dinh Province that day. In November 1966, 641 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 12E, Line 112

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.