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An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina.
An airman lights a candle during POW/MIA recognition week at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. Photo: A1C Aaron Jenne, U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Marshall Joseph Angell.

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MARSHALL JOSEPH ANGELL

Specialist Five · U.S. Army

January 29, 1939 – December 12, 1963

Service record

Marshall Joseph Angell, of Roanoke, Virginia, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on December 12, 1963, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 1E, Line 37 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 1E · Line 37

Position of Panel 1E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Specialist Five (SP5)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Uh-60 Helicopter Repairer (67T)
Unit (as recorded)
611 TRANS CO
Born
January 29, 1939
Home of record
Roanoke, Virginia (Roanoke (City) County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 12, 1963
Age
24
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown
Remains
Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record

Context · from the records

What was happening

Eight names on the Wall carry the date December 12, 1963; he was the only one lost in Bình Dương Province that day. In December 1963, 23 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.

Also on Panel 1E, Line 37

From Roanoke

All 49 names from Roanoke →

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.