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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Marvin E Goebel.

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MARVIN E GOEBEL

Specialist Five · U.S. Army

April 24, 1928 – September 17, 1967

Service record

Marvin E Goebel, of Edgerton, Ohio, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on September 17, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 39. His name is inscribed on Panel 26E, Line 84 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 26E · Line 84

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Five (SP5)
Service
Regular
Unit (as recorded)
FAC USASTRATCOM
Born
April 24, 1928
Home of record
Edgerton, Ohio (Williams County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 17, 1967
Age
39
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Infectious Disease

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29 names on the Wall carry the date September 17, 1967. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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From Edgerton

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.