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DAVID MARLOW TOMLINSON
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
February 12, 1946 – April 11, 1968
Service recordDavid Marlow Tomlinson, of Cypress, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 11, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 49E, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 49E · Line 27
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
- Machinegunner (0331)
- Born
- February 12, 1946
- Home of record
- Cypress, California (Orange County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 11, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date April 11, 1968; seven of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 49E, Line 27
- JAMES ARTHUR DILLPrivate First Class · April 11, 1968
- PATRICK FRA VANDUYNHOVENSecond Lieutenant · April 11, 1968
- ARTHUR C WILLIAMS JRPetty Officer First Class · April 11, 1968
- JAMES C WOODCorporal · April 11, 1968
From Cypress
- JACK DENNIS HANGERSpecialist Four · March 21, 1967
- CHARLES CURTIS CLENDENENSpecialist Four · April 18, 1967
- PETER QUIRINUS BOETS JRCorporal · May 13, 1967
- JACKIE ANDREW CARRANOSpecialist Four · April 22, 1968
- PATRICK DENNIS FAYSpecialist Four · September 10, 1968
- STEVEN PAUL SORICKPrivate First Class · October 21, 1968
- NORBERT OTTO WERNERSergeant · October 31, 1968
- JOHN PHILLIP COOKCorporal · February 18, 1969
- CLIFFORD LEE SWISHERPrivate First Class · March 22, 1969
- ROBERT W ROSSSergeant · May 13, 1975
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.