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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 Marvin Foster Phillips.

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MARVIN FOSTER PHILLIPS

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

June 30, 1946 – September 26, 1966

Service record

Marvin Foster Phillips, of Gruetli, Tennessee, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on September 26, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 11E, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 11E · Line 20

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
114 ASLT HELO CO
Born
June 30, 1946
Home of record
Gruetli, Tennessee (Grundy County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 26, 1966
Age
20
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

Ten names on the Wall carry the date September 26, 1966. In September 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “114 ASLT HELO CO”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.

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.

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Also on Panel 11E, Line 20

Same unit, same day

From Gruetli

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.