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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Marvin Lewis Noe.

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MARVIN LEWIS NOE

Sergeant · U.S. Army

August 18, 1948 – May 9, 1969

Service record

Marvin Lewis Noe, of Lawton, Oklahoma, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 9, 1969, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 25W, Line 31 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 25W · Line 31

Position of Panel 25W 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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
Unit (as recorded)
11 ARMORED CAV
Born
August 18, 1948
Home of record
Lawton, Oklahoma (Comanche County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 9, 1969
Age
20
Province
Binh Long
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

39 names on the Wall carry the date May 9, 1969; three of them were lost in Binh Long Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 11 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 25W, Line 31

From Lawton

All 33 names from Lawton →

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.