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MARION NELSON SALTZ
Private First Class · U.S. Army
December 18, 1946 – March 20, 1968
Service recordMarion Nelson Saltz, of Marengo, Indiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 20, 1968, in Darlac Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 45E, Line 42 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45E · Line 42
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
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- December 18, 1946
- Home of record
- Marengo, Indiana (Crawford County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 20, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Darlac
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
41 names on the Wall carry the date March 20, 1968; seven of them were lost in Darlac Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 68 of its members that month.
He died in Darlac Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 45E, Line 42
- JAMES ALAN PATTONSergeant · March 20, 1968
- GARY DEWAYNE REEDSergeant · March 20, 1968
- ALAN RICHARD ROBERTSSpecialist Four · March 20, 1968
- FRANKLIN A SAPPINGFIELDSpecialist Four · March 20, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ROY M ALEXANDERPrivate First Class · Panel 45E, Line 37
- ALAN GEORGE BARETTIPrivate First Class · Panel 45E, Line 37
- GEORGE DWAYNE BARRETTPrivate First Class · Panel 45E, Line 37
- JAMES ELTON FISHERPrivate First Class · Panel 45E, Line 39
- RUFUS Q HENDERSONSpecialist Four · Panel 45E, Line 40
- GARY DEWAYNE REEDSergeant · Panel 45E, Line 42
- ALAN RICHARD ROBERTSSpecialist Four · Panel 45E, Line 42
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.