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MARVIN ROBERT PEARCE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 18, 1949 – August 25, 1968
Service recordMarvin Robert Pearce, of Capitola, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 25, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 46W, Line 19 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46W · Line 19
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 Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- March 18, 1949
- Home of record
- Capitola, California (Santa Cruz County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 25, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
76 names on the Wall carry the date August 25, 1968; five of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 86 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 46W, Line 19
- BRUCE JEFFREY NELSONPrivate First Class · August 25, 1968
- JOHNNY B NESBITTSpecialist Four · August 25, 1968
- STEVE OWEN NUSSBAUMERSergeant · August 25, 1968
- JOSE MANUEL PENAFirst Lieutenant · August 25, 1968
Same unit, same day
- KEITH WILLIAM ROWELLSergeant · Panel 46W, Line 22
- JAMES FRANKLIN WATSONSpecialist Four · Panel 46W, Line 25
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.