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DARRELL DWANE BRATTON
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
August 7, 1948 – May 22, 1968
Service recordDarrell Dwane Bratton, of Russellville, Arkansas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 22, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 65E, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 65E · Line 5
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
- Assaultman (0351)
- Born
- August 7, 1948
- Home of record
- Russellville, Arkansas (Pope County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 22, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date May 22, 1968; ten of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 65E, Line 5
- DENVER JOSEPH BERKHEIMERLance Corporal · May 22, 1968
- WILLIAM RONALD BISSELLPrivate · May 22, 1968
- BILLY MAC BRISTERSergeant · May 22, 1968
- DAVIS FREEMAN BROWNPrivate First Class · May 22, 1968
From Russellville
- GUY THOMAS FREELANDSergeant First Class · December 8, 1964
- JIMMY DON FULFORDLance Corporal · July 12, 1968
- JAMES ROBERT KEIMPrivate First Class · July 22, 1968
- WILLIAM ROBERT HALECorporal · May 14, 1969
- NORMAN WADE TEETERSergeant · June 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.