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OLIN DEWEY MARLAR III
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 24, 1951 – March 25, 1971
Service recordOlin Dewey Marlar III, of Santa Ana, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 25, 1971, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 77 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4W · Line 77
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
- Born
- November 24, 1951
- Home of record
- Santa Ana, California (Orange County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 25, 1971
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date March 25, 1971; two of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In March 1971, 429 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM”, his unit in the record, lost 60 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 4W, Line 77
- GARY DEAN HALLIDAYPrivate First Class · March 25, 1971
- R D MCDONELLStaff Sergeant · March 25, 1971
- JEFFREY MATHEW PARMELEESpecialist Four · March 25, 1971
Same unit, same day
- EDDIE LEROY DODDSpecialist Four · Panel 4W, Line 75
- CHRIS BROWN JRSpecialist Four · Panel 4W, Line 76
- JEROME ELLIS JACKSONPrivate · Panel 4W, Line 78
From Santa Ana
- WILLIAM FORBES EISENBRAUNCaptain · July 5, 1965
- RUSSELL LAVERNE BISHOPSergeant · March 21, 1966
- CLYDE D MCDONALD IIPrivate First Class · March 25, 1966
- DONALD LEROY HEASTONPlatoon Sergeant · August 23, 1966
- CHARLES EUGENE STOKESPrivate First Class · September 17, 1966
- DOMINGO ESCALANTE JRSpecialist Four · February 16, 1967
- GARY KENNETH SMITHSpecialist Four · February 27, 1967
- ROBERT ANTHONY CHAPPSergeant · April 14, 1967
- RALPH JEAN TURCOTTELance Corporal · May 9, 1967
- RODGER LEE FORTUNESpecialist Four · May 26, 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.