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MAXIM CHARLES PARKER
Second Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps
April 10, 1943 – March 18, 1967
Service recordMaxim Charles Parker, of Rolling Hills, California, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 18, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 107 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16E · Line 107
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Second Lieutenant (2NDLT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Unit (as recorded)
- VMFA 314 MAG 13 1 MAW
- Born
- April 10, 1943
- Home of record
- Rolling Hills, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 18, 1967
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date March 18, 1967; two of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 16E, Line 107
- HARRY WALTER BRANHAMSpecialist Four · March 18, 1967
- CHARLES WILLIAM SANDERSSecond Lieutenant · March 18, 1967
- MICHAEL FRANCIS SMITHSpecialist Four · March 18, 1967
- CHARLIE EARL THOMPSONSergeant · March 18, 1967
From Rolling Hills
- WILLARD SHERWIN PRESCOTTCorporal · May 29, 1967
- FRANCIS GILBERT HENRYPrivate First Class · February 1, 1968
- WIELAND CLYDE NORRISPrivate First Class · June 3, 1970
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.