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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 Darwin Lee Judge.

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DARWIN LEE JUDGE

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

February 16, 1956 – April 29, 1975

Service record

Darwin Lee Judge, of Marshalltown, Iowa, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 29, 1975, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 1W, Line 124 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 1W · Line 124

Position of Panel 1W 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
Lance Corporal (LCPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Mortarman (0341)
Born
February 16, 1956
Home of record
Marshalltown, Iowa (Marshall County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 29, 1975
Age
19
Province
Bien Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

Four names on the Wall carry the date April 29, 1975; two of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In April 1975, 16 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 1W, Line 124

From Marshalltown

All 12 names from Marshalltown →

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.