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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 Lloyd Daniel Quillen.

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LLOYD DANIEL QUILLEN

Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps

March 14, 1947 – April 14, 1969

Service record

Lloyd Daniel Quillen, of New York, New York, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 14, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 83 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 27W · Line 83

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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
March 14, 1947
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 14, 1969
Age
22
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

27 names on the Wall carry the date April 14, 1969; four of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 27W, Line 83

From New York

All 1370 names from New York →

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.