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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 Godfred Blankenship.

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GODFRED BLANKENSHIP

Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps

April 28, 1938 – March 26, 1967

Service record

Godfred Blankenship, of Vicey, Virginia, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 26, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 48 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 17E · Line 48

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Unit (as recorded)
1 FORCE 1 RECON BN 1 MARDIV
Born
April 28, 1938
Home of record
Vicey, Virginia (Buchanan County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 26, 1967
Age
28
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Grenade

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40 names on the Wall carry the date March 26, 1967; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 17E, Line 48

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.