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DONALD RAY MARLOW
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
May 4, 1945 – April 30, 1970
Service recordDonald Ray Marlow, of Memphis, Tennessee, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on April 30, 1970, in Binh Thuy Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 11W, Line 75 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 11W · Line 75
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
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 45 MED CO USARV
- Born
- May 4, 1945
- Home of record
- Memphis, Tennessee (Shelby County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 30, 1970
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Binh Thuy
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date April 30, 1970; seven of them were lost in Binh Thuy Province. In April 1970, 730 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “45 MED CO USARV”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 11W, Line 75
- DONALD RALPH LEDLIECorporal · April 30, 1970
- ROBERT EUGENE MASSETHSpecialist Five · April 30, 1970
- WILLIAM ALFRED MEISTERSergeant · April 30, 1970
- LUIS ADRIAN SANTELLANOSergeant · April 30, 1970
Same unit, same day
- KEVIN REYNOLDS KELEHERSpecialist Five · Panel 11W, Line 74
- JOHN RAYMOND SMITHChief Warrant Officer 2 · Panel 11W, Line 77
From Memphis
- JESSE ALEXANDER GRAYSergeant First Class · June 12, 1964
- ANDREW DAYTON PARKER JRMajor · June 18, 1965
- JOHN CARLOS HARRISSergeant · July 21, 1965
- WALTER LEWIS SMITHPrivate First Class · August 19, 1965
- CLAUDE TALBERT JRPrivate First Class · October 8, 1965
- WILLIAM CLYDE HARPERSergeant · October 10, 1965
- DANIEL DAVID HARDENSergeant · November 1, 1965
- RANDLE TOM WOODSLance Corporal · November 6, 1965
- KELLY EUGENE WHITAKERPrivate First Class · November 8, 1965
- MELVIN FRANK FORTSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
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.