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BRUCE ALEN MARRON
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 11, 1947 – July 20, 1968
Service recordBruce Alen Marron, of Peabody, Massachusetts, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 20, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 51W, Line 19 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 51W · Line 19
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. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- May 11, 1947
- Home of record
- Peabody, Massachusetts (Essex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 20, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date July 20, 1968; 13 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 80 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 51W, Line 19
- DONALD ERNEST HEGGANFirst Lieutenant · July 20, 1968
- GARY CLAUD JONESSergeant · July 20, 1968
- BRIAN FRANCIS LEFEVREPrivate First Class · July 20, 1968
- ARTHUR PATRICK MURPHY JRLance Corporal · July 20, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JAMES ARTHUR CLEVELANDSergeant · Panel 51W, Line 17
- ERNEST EVANSSergeant · Panel 51W, Line 17
- AUSTIN DALE GIBSONSpecialist Four · Panel 51W, Line 18
- JAMES EDWARD OTOOLE JRSpecialist Five · Panel 51W, Line 20
From Peabody
- LEO WILLIAM LEVESQUEPetty Officer Second Class · December 13, 1965
- JOHN HENRY SAVAGEAUPrivate First Class · March 20, 1966
- JOHN EDWARD MCCARTHYStaff Sergeant · February 20, 1967
- RALPH WARREN MANEYSergeant · March 22, 1968
- LOUIS MARIO GIROLIMONLance Corporal · June 10, 1968
- ROBERT LESLIE ROSSFirst Lieutenant · August 22, 1968
- RICHARD LANE COTTERSecond Lieutenant · February 10, 1969
- RICHARD JOSEPH BOISWarrant Officer 1 · March 7, 1969
- STEVEN ELLIS DONALDSONSecond Lieutenant · April 5, 1969
- BRUCE DAVID DICKFirst Lieutenant · May 9, 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.