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JOSEPH PENN MAREK
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 23, 1945 – November 15, 1967
Service recordJoseph Penn Marek, of Fontana, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 15, 1967, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 29E, Line 101 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29E · Line 101
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. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- August 23, 1945
- Home of record
- Fontana, California (San Bernardino County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 15, 1967
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date November 15, 1967; two of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 29E, Line 101
- WILLIAM FREDRICK HUBER JRSergeant First Class · November 15, 1967
- DONALD EDWARD KREUSCHERSergeant · November 15, 1967
- JIMMIE LUE MCMORRISPrivate First Class · November 15, 1967
- WILLIAM GEORGE NUEBEL JRPrivate First Class · November 15, 1967
Same unit, same day
- HENRY B HAWKINS JRPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 100
From Fontana
- RICHARD ALLEN NOELKEPrivate First Class · November 6, 1965
- DOMINIC ANTHONY CORONAPrivate First Class · July 29, 1966
- GARY RICHARD DANSERSpecialist Four · July 20, 1967
- JOHN ARLINGTON RODGERSSpecialist Four · April 20, 1968
- RONALD ELLIS WILTSEFirst Lieutenant · May 13, 1968
- RICHARD ARTHUR LANESpecialist Five · June 16, 1968
- GARY ELLIS HOADLEYSergeant · August 3, 1968
- CALVIN LEWISCorporal · January 6, 1969
- PARIS WILLIAM MONTANEZPrivate First Class · January 27, 1969
- RICHARD ALLEN BURNSCorporal · February 28, 1969
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.