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Marines of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade after landing at Đà Nẵng, March 1965.
Marines of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade after landing at Đà Nẵng, March 1965. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Duane Charles Smith.

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DUANE CHARLES SMITH

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

March 2, 1944 – October 13, 1965

Service record

Duane Charles Smith, of Windsor, Colorado, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on October 13, 1965, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 123 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 2E · Line 123

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
March 2, 1944
Home of record
Windsor, Colorado (Weld County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 13, 1965
Age
21
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

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Seven names on the Wall carry the date October 13, 1965; four of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In October 1965, 236 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 2E, Line 123

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.