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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 Jay Darwin McLain.

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JAY DARWIN MCLAIN

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

February 7, 1942 – May 28, 1967

Service record

Jay Darwin McLain, of Bancroft, Idaho, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 28, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 21E · Line 6

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Lance Corporal (LCPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Engineer Equipment Operator (1345)
Born
February 7, 1942
Home of record
Bancroft, Idaho (Caribou County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 28, 1967
Age
25
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

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28 names on the Wall carry the date May 28, 1967; he was the only one lost in Quảng Tín Province that day. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 21E, Line 6

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.