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FRANK MAXWELL DARLING
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 5, 1949 – April 20, 1968
Service recordFrank Maxwell Darling, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 20, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 51E, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 51E · Line 6
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
- Field Radio Operator (2531)
- Born
- January 5, 1949
- Home of record
- Cheyenne, Wyoming (Laramie County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 20, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date April 20, 1968; 27 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 51E, Line 6
- JERRY JUNIOR CHAPMANSergeant · April 20, 1968
- MICHAEL MARSHALL CLAYTONLance Corporal · April 20, 1968
- ROME EDWARD DIMMERLINGPrivate First Class · April 20, 1968
- ROBERT WAYNE GLIDDENPrivate First Class · April 20, 1968
From Cheyenne
- ROBERT FRED GUTHRIEPetty Officer Third Class · January 31, 1966
- MICHAEL RAY BECKPrivate First Class · March 28, 1966
- WILLIAM BERTUS ESSLINGERPrivate First Class · June 1, 1967
- LAWRENCE DANIEL TORREZLance Corporal · September 4, 1967
- EDWARD MCNALLYSpecialist Four · January 31, 1968
- JOSEPH ANTHONY PADILLASpecialist Four · May 18, 1968
- EDWARD RAYMOND BRAUNPrivate First Class · July 21, 1968
- DENNIS BARRY FARRISPrivate First Class · January 12, 1969
- JOHN WILLIAM KOBELIN IICorporal · March 6, 1969
- ERNEST CLAUDE BALLANDStaff Sergeant · May 25, 1970
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.