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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 John Zamorski.

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GLENN JOHN ZAMORSKI

First Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps

October 5, 1942 – June 11, 1968

Service record

Glenn John Zamorski, of Elizabeth, New Jersey, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 11, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 58W, Line 31 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 58W · Line 31

Position of Panel 58W 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
Pilot Ch-46 Qualified (7562)
Born
October 5, 1942
Home of record
Elizabeth, New Jersey (Union County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 11, 1968
Age
25
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

51 names on the Wall carry the date June 11, 1968; ten of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 58W, Line 31

From Elizabeth

All 27 names from Elizabeth →

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.