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An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina.
An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. Photo: A1C Aaron Jenne, U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Duwayne Soulier.

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DUWAYNE SOULIER

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

December 31, 1946 – May 1, 1967

Service record

Duwayne Soulier, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 1, 1967, offshore, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 19E, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 19E · Line 8

Position of Panel 19E 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Assaultman (0351)
Unit (as recorded)
HQ CO 7 COM BN 1 MARDIV REIN
Born
December 31, 1946
Home of record
Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Milwaukee County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 1, 1967
Age
20
Province
Offshore
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Remains
Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record

Context · from the records

What was happening

34 names on the Wall carry the date May 1, 1967. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.

Also on Panel 19E, Line 8

From Milwaukee

All 204 names from Milwaukee →

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.