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An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. Photo: A1C Aaron Jenne, U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of John Thomas Corle.

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JOHN THOMAS CORLE

Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

December 29, 1941 – December 8, 1965

Service record

John Thomas Corle, of Pitcairn, Pennsylvania, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 8, 1965, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 4E, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Aircraft Cryptographic Systems Technician, Ima (6422)
Unit (as recorded)
HMM 364 MAG 36 1 MAW
Born
December 29, 1941
Home of record
Pitcairn, Pennsylvania (Allegheny County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 8, 1965
Age
23
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew
Remains
Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record

Context · from the records

What was happening

Eight names on the Wall carry the date December 8, 1965; two of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In December 1965, 326 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.

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From Pitcairn

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.