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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Glenn Edward Insprucker.

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GLENN EDWARD INSPRUCKER

First Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps

September 25, 1941 – September 17, 1966

Service record

Glenn Edward Insprucker, of Glendale, California, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 17, 1966, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 10E, Line 106 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 10E · Line 106

Position of Panel 10E 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
First Lieutenant (1STLT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Infantry Officer (I) (0302)
Born
September 25, 1941
Home of record
Glendale, California (Los Angeles County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 17, 1966
Age
24
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

38 names on the Wall carry the date September 17, 1966; 13 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In September 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 10E, Line 106

From Glendale

All 20 names from Glendale →

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.