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OFALEE PERKINS
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
December 12, 1947 – April 22, 1969
Service recordOfalee Perkins, of Gary, Indiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 22, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 26W, Line 25 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26W · Line 25
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
- Occupation
- Motor Vehicle Operator (3531)
- Born
- December 12, 1947
- Home of record
- Gary, Indiana (Lake County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 22, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Vehicle Crash (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date April 22, 1969; three of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 26W, Line 25
- NICKOLAS GASTELUM GARCIASpecialist Four · April 22, 1969
- JAMES HUDSON JRSpecialist Four · April 22, 1969
- FELIX JACQUESPrivate First Class · April 22, 1969
- DAVID LEESergeant · April 22, 1969
From Gary
- JOHN ROBERT ACKERMANPrivate First Class · November 16, 1965
- TOM WILLIE BROWNSergeant · December 4, 1965
- JACK ELSWORTH LOCKEPrivate First Class · January 27, 1966
- ROBERT LOPEZPrivate First Class · March 1, 1966
- JAMES LEE EMMARTPrivate First Class · June 20, 1966
- RICHARD WAYNE MCGEECorporal · July 1, 1966
- VICTOR MORALESPrivate First Class · August 1, 1966
- JOHN PETER SKORO JRFirst Lieutenant · September 13, 1966
- JOHN GREEN DICKERSON IIIPrivate · October 5, 1966
- ANDREW JAMES ROBERTSONPrivate First Class · November 2, 1966
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.