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MERLE DEANE TURNER
Lieutenant Colonel · U.S. Air Force
January 27, 1923 – September 4, 1967
Service recordMerle Deane Turner, of Macon, Missouri, served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Air Force. He died on September 4, 1967, in Lam Dong Province, South Vietnam, at age 44. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 112 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25E · Line 112
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. Air Force
- Rank
- Lieutenant Colonel (LTCOL)
- Service
- Regular
- Born
- January 27, 1923
- Home of record
- Macon, Missouri (Macon County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 4, 1967
- Age
- 44
- Province
- Lam Dong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
91 names on the Wall carry the date September 4, 1967; 11 of them were lost in Lam Dong Province. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 25E, Line 112
- ERIC MICHAEL WARDWELLLance Corporal · September 4, 1967
- RICHARD A WORTHPrivate First Class · September 4, 1967
- STEVEN JAMES WRIGHTPrivate First Class · September 4, 1967
- EARL WILLIAM FERNANDEZStaff Sergeant · September 5, 1967
From Macon
- ROBERT ALLEN ANSPACHMaster Sergeant · September 11, 1967
- NOBLE THOMAS HEADSpecialist Four · October 27, 1968
- ROBERT BRUCE MADDOXFirst Lieutenant · February 11, 1969
- EDWARD LEE REYNOLDSSpecialist Four · September 18, 1970
- ROGER LEE CHRISTENSENSpecialist Four · December 5, 1971
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.