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JOE EBERT ALLEN
Second Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps
July 17, 1945 – May 24, 1968
Service recordJoe Ebert Allen, of Bay St Louis, Mississippi, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 24, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 67E, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 67E · Line 3
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
- Second Lieutenant (2NDLT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Officer (I) (0302)
- Born
- July 17, 1945
- Home of record
- Bay St Louis, Mississippi (Hancock County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 24, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
76 names on the Wall carry the date May 24, 1968; nine of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 67E, Line 3
- CLIFTON THOMAS TAYLORCorporal · May 23, 1968
- WILLIAM HENRY TAYLORCaptain · May 23, 1968
- DANIEL FRANCIS THOMPSONSergeant · May 23, 1968
- RUSSELL UDELL WESTLance Corporal · May 23, 1968
From Bay St Louis
- THOMAS JOSEPH WILLIAMSCorporal · June 5, 1969
- WALLACE JOSEPH DEPREOSpecialist Five · October 17, 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.