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MERLIN RAYE ALLEN
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
October 22, 1946 – June 30, 1967
Service recordMerlin Raye Allen, of Bayfield, Wisconsin, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 30, 1967, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 22E, Line 86 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 22E · Line 86
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
- Lance Corporal (LCPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Field Radio Operator (2531)
- Unit (as recorded)
- A CO 3 RECON BN 3 MARDIV
- Born
- October 22, 1946
- Home of record
- Bayfield, Wisconsin (Bayfield County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 30, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
21 names on the Wall carry the date June 30, 1967; five of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “A CO 3 RECON BN 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 22E, Line 86
- WILLIAM A TAYLORSpecialist Five · June 29, 1967
- FRANCIS HENRY TOENYANCorporal · June 29, 1967
- RICHARD ALBERT CARTERCorporal · June 30, 1967
- LEGRANDE OGDEN COLE JRCommander · June 30, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JOHN DEWEY KILLEN IIILance Corporal · Panel 22E, Line 88
- GLYN LINAL RUNNELS JRCorporal · Panel 22E, Line 90
From Bayfield
- JAMES WILLIAM HESSINGCorporal · May 23, 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.