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JOSEPH LAWRENCE DREW
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
December 30, 1946 – December 27, 1965
Service recordJoseph Lawrence Drew, of Woburn, Massachusetts, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 27, 1965, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 4E, Line 40 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4E · Line 40
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Machinegunner (0331)
- Born
- December 30, 1946
- Home of record
- Woburn, Massachusetts (Middlesex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 27, 1965
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
11 names on the Wall carry the date December 27, 1965; four of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In December 1965, 326 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 4E, Line 40
- LEONIDAS RAISISSergeant · December 25, 1965
- CHARLES ALAN ROBERTSCaptain · December 26, 1965
- CARL HARVEY TORELLOSergeant First Class · December 26, 1965
- JOHN GARTH TOWNERCorporal · December 26, 1965
From Woburn
- WILLIAM COOLEYSergeant · February 9, 1966
- EDWARD STEPHEN OBRIENSeaman · December 4, 1967
- RUSSELL WILLIS NOYESLance Corporal · April 30, 1968
- CHARLES LEO ONEILL JRCorporal · July 19, 1968
- ALAN ROBERT GERRISHHospitalman · September 7, 1968
- JOHN RALPH FRONGILLOWarrant Officer 1 · May 17, 1969
- DAVID EDWARD KENNEYPrivate First Class · June 11, 1969
- WILLIAM EDWARD MCCORMACKPrivate · September 2, 1969
- CHARLES MCMAHON JRCorporal · April 29, 1975
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.