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MARC WAYNE MCCABE
Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
October 3, 1945 – February 28, 1968
Service recordMarc Wayne McCabe, of Menlo Park, California, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 28, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 41E, Line 70 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41E · Line 70
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
- Born
- October 3, 1945
- Home of record
- Menlo Park, California (San Mateo County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 28, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
91 names on the Wall carry the date February 28, 1968; 29 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 41E, Line 70
- GARY WILLIAM PAINTERPrivate First Class · February 28, 1968
- CHARLES EDWARD PARSONSSergeant · February 28, 1968
- JUANITO PEREASpecialist Six · February 28, 1968
- DALLIS PERRYMANTechnical Sergeant · February 28, 1968
From Menlo Park
- ROY SHARP PITTPrivate First Class · June 11, 1966
- SALVADOR ZABALA JRSergeant · February 22, 1967
- MARTIN MOSHER HUNTPrivate First Class · July 29, 1967
- LEONARD JOHN HALLSergeant · March 26, 1969
- WILLIAM JAMES BURKE JRSergeant · May 12, 1969
- ELGIN JOHN JURIPrivate First Class · June 29, 1969
- JOHN WILLIE COCKERHAM JRSpecialist Four · August 26, 1969
- GARY DEAN TAYLORPrivate First Class · October 4, 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.