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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 John Keith Marshall.

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JOHN KEITH MARSHALL

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

June 20, 1949 – November 17, 1968

Service record

John Keith Marshall, of Green Bay, Wisconsin, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on November 17, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 38W, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 38W · Line 2

Position of Panel 38W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Lance Corporal (LCPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
June 20, 1949
Home of record
Green Bay, Wisconsin (Brown County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 17, 1968
Age
19
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

41 names on the Wall carry the date November 17, 1968; 18 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 38W, Line 2

From Green Bay

All 33 names from Green Bay →

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.