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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 Zion Brock JR.

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MARVIN ZION BROCK JR

Corporal · U.S. Army

January 19, 1945 – April 16, 1967

Service record

Marvin Zion Brock JR, of Tallahassee, Florida, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on April 16, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 33 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 18E · Line 33

Position of Panel 18E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
January 19, 1945
Home of record
Tallahassee, Florida (Leon County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 16, 1967
Age
22
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

26 names on the Wall carry the date April 16, 1967. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 98 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 18E, Line 33

Same unit, same day

From Tallahassee

All 26 names from Tallahassee →

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.