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HERMAN PAUL MAGEE
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
November 27, 1949 – July 22, 1968
Service recordHerman Paul Magee, of Pascagoula, Mississippi, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 22, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 51W, Line 34 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 51W · Line 34
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
- November 27, 1949
- Home of record
- Pascagoula, Mississippi (Jackson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 22, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date July 22, 1968; eight of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 51W, Line 34
- GERALD DENNIS KIESLINGPrivate First Class · July 22, 1968
- GERALD KIRBYPrivate First Class · July 22, 1968
- DONALD JOHN KRUSSOWPrivate First Class · July 22, 1968
- DAVID MARK MAYMONCorporal · July 22, 1968
From Pascagoula
- GIOVANNINO TUMMINIASpecialist Five · March 30, 1966
- EUGENE JEHLEN MAJUREFirst Lieutenant · August 18, 1966
- GEORGE CURTIS SIGALASLance Corporal · December 22, 1967
- JAMES ALLEN BURTONSpecialist Four · June 11, 1968
- THOMAS DOUGLAS HARDYPrivate · October 22, 1968
- GEORGE DOUGLAS HOWARDPrivate First Class · October 9, 1969
- JOHN ELMORE WELLSSergeant · June 4, 1970
- HOWARD OTTO WARBINGTONStaff Sergeant · April 3, 1971
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.