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JERRY LEE MARCUM
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
July 8, 1949 – September 17, 1968
Service recordJerry Lee Marcum, of Muncie, Indiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 17, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 43W, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43W · Line 17
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
- July 8, 1949
- Home of record
- Muncie, Indiana (Delaware County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 17, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
64 names on the Wall carry the date September 17, 1968; 17 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 43W, Line 17
- LEON EDWARD KIZZIEPrivate First Class · September 17, 1968
- GEORGE LEE JRSpecialist Four · September 17, 1968
- LIONEL MALDONADO-TORRESCorporal · September 17, 1968
- JAMES EDWARD MARLOWSergeant · September 17, 1968
From Muncie
- NEIL BERNARD MCKINNEYFirst Lieutenant · September 2, 1963
- ROBERT LEWIS CLARKStaff Sergeant · May 16, 1965
- FRED YOUEL WRIGHT JRPrivate First Class · March 22, 1966
- EDWARD C ZIMMERMAN JRLance Corporal · June 25, 1966
- GLENDON LEE AMMONColonel · September 21, 1966
- ELMER LEVERNE BUCHANANPrivate First Class · September 24, 1966
- THOMAS JOSEPH CAREYSergeant · January 26, 1967
- HARVEY GRANT HOWE JRWarrant Officer 1 · January 28, 1967
- ALAN CRAIG SHROYERPrivate First Class · March 4, 1967
- CHARLES DUANE SAYLORSpecialist Four · March 12, 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.