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MARLON WADE TROXEL
Private First Class · U.S. Army
September 3, 1948 – March 16, 1969
Service recordMarlon Wade Troxel, of St Paul, Minnesota, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 16, 1969, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 29W, Line 57 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29W · Line 57
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- September 3, 1948
- Home of record
- St Paul, Minnesota (Ramsey County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 16, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date March 16, 1969; he was the only one lost in Pleiku Province that day. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 174 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 29W, Line 57
- RICHARD MICHAEL ROCCOCorporal · March 16, 1969
- CHARLES W WARRINGTON JRPrivate First Class · March 16, 1969
- LOUIS GERARD WHEELERSergeant · March 16, 1969
- JEFF WHITEHEADLance Corporal · March 16, 1969
Same unit, same day
- ALBERT ALLEN BEAUCHAMPCorporal · Panel 29W, Line 51
From St Paul
- RAYMOND CHARLES WILDEChief Warrant Officer 2 · January 11, 1963
- DAVID MICHAEL HALBAUERStaff Sergeant · October 13, 1965
- JOHN CALVIN ELZY IIIPrivate First Class · November 16, 1965
- ROBERT E WALDVOGELSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
- ARLIN ROGER JENSENSpecialist Four · November 19, 1965
- JOHN WALTER WILSON JRPrivate First Class · December 10, 1965
- KALE ARLAN SOLBERGPrivate First Class · February 1, 1966
- JOSEPH SAMUEL HERRONPrivate First Class · March 4, 1966
- DAVID JOSEPH KERNPrivate First Class · April 1, 1966
- LAVERN GEORGE REILLYColonel · May 15, 1966
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.