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EDWARD EUGENE WHALEN
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
September 28, 1949 – April 22, 1968
Service recordEdward Eugene Whalen, of Arnold, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 22, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 51E, Line 34 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 51E · Line 34
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)
- Unit (as recorded)
- M CO 3 BN 1 MAR 1 MARDIV
- Born
- September 28, 1949
- Home of record
- Arnold, Pennsylvania (Westmoreland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 22, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
38 names on the Wall carry the date April 22, 1968; four of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “M CO 3 BN 1 MAR 1 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 51E, Line 34
- JOHNNY SALAS TAITAGUESpecialist Four · April 22, 1968
- THURMAN TRACY WALLSCorporal · April 22, 1968
- ROBERT RANDOLPH WHITE JRPrivate First Class · April 22, 1968
- WALTER RIDGEWAY WINDER JRSpecialist Four · April 22, 1968
From Arnold
- SZOLTON SIGMOND KLEINPrivate First Class · July 9, 1967
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.