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DEWAYNE KING
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
June 28, 1947 – April 14, 1968
Service recordDewayne King, of Douglas, Georgia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 14, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 49E, Line 53 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 49E · Line 53
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
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- June 28, 1947
- Home of record
- Douglas, Georgia (Coffee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 14, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date April 14, 1968; 16 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 49E, Line 53
- GARY HOYT LEARYPrivate First Class · April 14, 1968
- BENJAMIN EDWIN LENNARD JRSpecialist Four · April 14, 1968
- HECTOR RAMON MARIN-RAMOSSergeant · April 14, 1968
- TIMOTHY GEORGE MATTSONCorporal · April 14, 1968
From Douglas
- LEON G HOLTONFirst Lieutenant · October 8, 1965
- HERBERT EUGENE BELCHERPetty Officer First Class · March 31, 1969
- NATHAN BEDFORD SIMMONSSergeant First Class · May 12, 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.