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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Michael Jon Marshman.

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MICHAEL JON MARSHMAN

Private First Class · U.S. Army

June 25, 1948 – January 20, 1967

Service record

Michael Jon Marshman, of Troy, Michigan, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 20, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 58 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 14E · Line 58

Position of Panel 14E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Heavy Construction Equipment Operator (62E)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
June 25, 1948
Home of record
Troy, Michigan (Oakland County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 20, 1967
Age
18
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

28 names on the Wall carry the date January 20, 1967. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 48 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 14E, Line 58

From Troy

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.