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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 Arthur Haddock.

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ARTHUR HADDOCK

Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps

September 8, 1926 – July 23, 1968

Service record

Arthur Haddock, of Irving, Oregon, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 23, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 41. His name is inscribed on Panel 51W, Line 39 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 51W · Line 39

Position of Panel 51W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Electrician (1141)
Born
September 8, 1926
Home of record
Irving, Oregon (Lane County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 23, 1968
Age
41
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

47 names on the Wall carry the date July 23, 1968; seven of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 51W, Line 39

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.