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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 James Terence Bayne.

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JAMES TERENCE BAYNE

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

August 5, 1947 – September 18, 1966

Service record

James Terence Bayne, of El Reno, Oklahoma, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 18, 1966, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 10E, Line 112 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 10E · Line 112

Position of Panel 10E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Lance Corporal (LCPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Cook (3371)
Unit (as recorded)
H S CO 3 AT BN 3 MARDIV
Born
August 5, 1947
Home of record
El Reno, Oklahoma (Canadian County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 18, 1966
Age
19
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

22 names on the Wall carry the date September 18, 1966; three of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In September 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 10E, Line 112

From El Reno

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.