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HUGH FRANK BLACKBURN
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
May 27, 1947 – May 10, 1967
Service recordHugh Frank Blackburn, of Columbia, South Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 10, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 19E, Line 78 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 19E · Line 78
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
- May 27, 1947
- Home of record
- Columbia, South Carolina (Richland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 10, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
62 names on the Wall carry the date May 10, 1967; 34 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 19E, Line 78
- NEIL JOSEPH CACCIOTTOLOPrivate First Class · May 10, 1967
- STEVEN LEE CANNONPrivate First Class · May 10, 1967
- STEVEN DOYLE CHAMBERSHospitalman · May 10, 1967
- LINWOOD EARL EBRONLance Corporal · May 10, 1967
From Columbia
- EARTHELL TYLERSergeant · November 17, 1965
- LUIS BELT R LOPEZPlatoon Sergeant · December 5, 1965
- EDDIE KENNETH WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · June 30, 1966
- THOMAS JASPER MAULDINStaff Sergeant · September 3, 1966
- CHARLES EDWARD MACMICHAELSergeant First Class · September 17, 1966
- RICHARD FLOYD WALTERSPrivate First Class · October 2, 1966
- CARROLL U THOMPSONCaptain · November 11, 1966
- DOUGLAS THOMAS JRAirman · August 4, 1966
- FORDHAM E FINCH JRPrivate First Class · January 13, 1967
- RICHARD BELTON BROCKMANCaptain · January 17, 1967
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.