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MARK MACDONALD SERREM
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
August 25, 1944 – January 31, 1968
Service recordMark Macdonald Serrem, of Carmel, California, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 31, 1968, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 36E, Line 35 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36E · Line 35
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
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Parachutist, Infantry Unit Commander (71542)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- August 25, 1944
- Home of record
- Carmel, California (Monterey County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 31, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
246 names on the Wall carry the date January 31, 1968; he was the only one lost in Pleiku Province that day. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 34 of its members that month.
He died in Pleiku 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.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 36E, Line 35
- JAMES SEIDENSTICKERPrivate First Class · January 31, 1968
- BRUCE DAVID SHARPPrivate First Class · January 31, 1968
- JAMES J SHERRILLSergeant First Class · January 31, 1968
- LEON JERRY SHRUMSpecialist Four · January 31, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ERNEST MADRIDSergeant · Panel 36E, Line 22
From Carmel
- CHARLES F DEAMARAL JRMajor · October 4, 1965
- KLAUS WARRELMANNSergeant · November 1, 1966
- LARRY JOSEPH LARSONPrivate First Class · March 26, 1967
- FRANK GEORGE ANTONESeaman · December 23, 1967
- PHILIPPE B FALESMajor · November 16, 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.