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JOSEPH CLAYTON THORNE JR
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
August 15, 1949 – March 17, 1969
Service recordJoseph Clayton Thorne JR, of Hyattsville, Maryland, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 17, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 29W, Line 64 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29W · Line 64
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- August 15, 1949
- Home of record
- Hyattsville, Maryland (Prince George's County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 17, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date March 17, 1969; seven of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 29W, Line 64
- DENNIS ROLAND LAWRENCEPrivate First Class · March 17, 1969
- DAVID ALLEN RUSSELLSpecialist Four · March 17, 1969
- DON SMITHSergeant · March 17, 1969
- FIRMAN ANDREW TITUSSpecialist Five · March 17, 1969
From Hyattsville
- UWE-THORSTEN SCOBELCaptain · March 25, 1964
- JOHN QUINCY QUESENBERRYPrivate First Class · July 9, 1966
- STEPHEN MICHAEL DYDYNSKIPrivate First Class · January 21, 1967
- PAUL LEROY HARRISONPrivate First Class · April 5, 1967
- JOSEPH RAYMOND SMITHSpecialist Four · April 17, 1967
- DAVID KEITH HOLDWAYLance Corporal · May 3, 1967
- MICHAEL JAMES HOOVERPrivate First Class · November 16, 1967
- THOMAS RAY KINGWarrant Officer 1 · December 16, 1967
- ALTON LAMOTTE WATKINS JRCorporal · January 2, 1968
- EUGENE EDWARD SWIFTSeaman · March 9, 1968
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.