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ODELL BERNARD PATE ACKER
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
September 16, 1950 – September 10, 1969
Service recordOdell Bernard Pate Acker, of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 10, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 18W, Line 63 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18W · Line 63
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Born
- September 16, 1950
- Home of record
- Winston-Salem, North Carolina (Forsyth County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 10, 1969
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
15 names on the Wall carry the date September 10, 1969; three of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In September 1969, 664 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 18W, Line 63
- LEWIS DEWAYNE ROSSSpecialist Four · September 9, 1969
- GREGORY EDWARD SCOTTSpecialist Four · September 9, 1969
- ROBERT PAUL TITCOMBCorporal · September 9, 1969
- RALPH M BOGGESS IIICorporal · September 10, 1969
From Winston-Salem
- JAMES WALTER FLOYDPrivate First Class · October 10, 1965
- RICHARD KENNETH JORDANCaptain · October 22, 1965
- JOHN CONNOR JRStaff Sergeant · February 12, 1966
- EUGENE GERALD ARMSTRONG JRChief Warrant Officer 4 · May 1, 1966
- LARRY RAYMOND LAMBERTPrivate First Class · September 11, 1966
- GARY GRANT RUSHINGPrivate First Class · October 27, 1966
- DOUGLAS WAYNE LEECorporal · March 26, 1967
- WALTER EARL MUNNSLance Corporal · March 27, 1967
- KENNETH MAURICE BURNETTPrivate First Class · April 11, 1967
- CLYDE ULAND MITCHELLCorporal · May 18, 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.