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GUY EDWARD RAY JR
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
August 17, 1947 – March 13, 1968
Service recordGuy Edward Ray JR, of Red Ash, Virginia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 13, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 44E, Line 36 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44E · Line 36
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
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Cannoneer (0811)
- Born
- August 17, 1947
- Home of record
- Red Ash, Virginia (Tazewell County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 13, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
57 names on the Wall carry the date March 13, 1968; 14 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 44E, Line 36
- RONALD FRANK GOLEBIEWSKIFirst Lieutenant · March 13, 1968
- EUGENE GUBBINSSergeant First Class · March 13, 1968
- DAVID LEE HAMPTONPrivate First Class · March 13, 1968
- WALTER ELMER HANDYPrivate First Class · March 13, 1968
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.