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HERMAN GARFIELD PAYNE
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
August 22, 1948 – August 19, 1968
Service recordHerman Garfield Payne, of Whitesville, Kentucky, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 19, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 47W, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47W · Line 3
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
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- August 22, 1948
- Home of record
- Whitesville, Kentucky (Daviess County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 19, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
56 names on the Wall carry the date August 19, 1968; 11 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 47W, Line 3
- CHARLIE PERKINS JRCorporal · August 19, 1968
- THOMAS LEROY POLLARDMajor · August 19, 1968
- ROBERT BUCK PURTELLSergeant · August 19, 1968
- RICHARD RAMIREZ JRPrivate First Class · August 19, 1968
From Whitesville
- DAVID PAUL NASHPrivate First Class · December 29, 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.