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MARION DAVID POWELL
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
February 2, 1950 – May 12, 1969
Service recordMarion David Powell, of Vine Grove, Kentucky, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 12, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 25W, Line 82 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25W · Line 82
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
- Rifleman (0311)
- Unit (as recorded)
- L CO 3 BN 5 MAR 1 MARDIV
- Born
- February 2, 1950
- Home of record
- Vine Grove, Kentucky (Hardin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 12, 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
170 names on the Wall carry the date May 12, 1969; 39 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 25W, Line 82
- ALAN NEIL PRENTICEPrivate First Class · May 12, 1969
- CECIL WAYNE QUEENSpecialist Four · May 12, 1969
- FELICE NICHOLS RATTASpecialist Four · May 12, 1969
- CLARENCE IRWIN RISHERPrivate · May 12, 1969
From Vine Grove
- DOUGLAS ANDREW JOHNSONPrivate First Class · August 6, 1966
- SYLVAIN LARRY WHITEFirst Lieutenant · May 27, 1968
- JOSEPH EDWARD GREENWELLFirst Lieutenant · January 29, 1969
- JOSEPH LARRY ARMSTRONGSpecialist Four · April 7, 1971
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.