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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Marvin Leroy Shipman.

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MARVIN LEROY SHIPMAN

Private First Class · U.S. Army

August 24, 1943 – December 20, 1965

Service record

Marvin Leroy Shipman, of Sullivan, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 20, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 4E, Line 31 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 4E · Line 31

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
O-1/U-6 Airplane Repairman (67B)
Born
August 24, 1943
Home of record
Sullivan, Illinois (Moultrie County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 20, 1965
Age
22
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)

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14 names on the Wall carry the date December 20, 1965. In December 1965, 326 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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From Sullivan

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.