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MERVIN DENNIS GOLDEN
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
September 12, 1944 – June 9, 1968
Service recordMervin Dennis Golden, of Mccall, Idaho, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 9, 1968, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 58W, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 58W · Line 8
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- September 12, 1944
- Home of record
- Mccall, Idaho (Valley County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 9, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
58 names on the Wall carry the date June 9, 1968; three of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 58W, Line 8
- CLIFFRED MELVIN EVANSSergeant · June 9, 1968
- CLIFFORD EUGENE FORD JRLance Corporal · June 9, 1968
- MICHAEL BRUCE FULLERLance Corporal · June 9, 1968
- LARRY HOWARD GIFFORDSergeant · June 9, 1968
From Mccall
- THOMAS MURTEN WILLISAirman Second Class · June 5, 1967
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.