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OLLIE FORTE
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
April 2, 1938 – June 11, 1968
Service recordOllie Forte, of Raleigh, North Carolina, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 11, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 30. His name is inscribed on Panel 58W, Line 25 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 58W · 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
- Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Leader (0369)
- Born
- April 2, 1938
- Home of record
- Raleigh, North Carolina (Wake County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 11, 1968
- Age
- 30
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
51 names on the Wall carry the date June 11, 1968; ten of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 58W, Line 25
- ROBERT STEVEN GROSSHARTFirst Lieutenant · June 11, 1968
- PAUL RAYMOND HARRISONSpecialist Four · June 11, 1968
- GORDON ABNER HAWKINSCaptain · June 11, 1968
- KENNETH JEROME HAWKINSSergeant · June 11, 1968
From Raleigh
- WILLIAM EDWARD DAVIS JRSecond Lieutenant · December 10, 1965
- CHARLES EDWARD ALSTONPrivate First Class · January 25, 1966
- LEE ARTHUR MOORE JRSpecialist Four · March 30, 1966
- EDWARD SHEPHERDPlatoon Sergeant · May 21, 1966
- JOHN B DAVIS IIISpecialist Four · July 7, 1966
- WAYLAND DUNN JRSergeant · August 14, 1966
- LEON GORDON CHADWICK IIICaptain · November 14, 1966
- JAMES EDWARD OXLEYFirst Lieutenant · November 26, 1966
- SAMUEL ADAMS JAMES JRFirst Lieutenant · December 4, 1966
- DONALD FRANK RHODESPrivate · January 7, 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.