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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 Joseph Bernard Toler.

The Wall › Panel 27W › District of Columbia › Joseph Bernard Toler

JOSEPH BERNARD TOLER

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

December 4, 1943 – April 3, 1969

Service record

Joseph Bernard Toler, of Washington, District of Columbia, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 3, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 27W · Line 7

Position of Panel 27W 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
Mortarman (0341)
Born
December 4, 1943
Home of record
Washington, District of Columbia (District Of Columbia County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 3, 1969
Age
25
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

21 names on the Wall carry the date April 3, 1969; three of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 27W, Line 7

From Washington

All 242 names from Washington →

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.