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OMAR DAVID WITMER JR
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
June 16, 1947 – September 17, 1967
Service recordOmar David Witmer JR, of Greencastle, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 17, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 26E, Line 86 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26E · Line 86
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
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- June 16, 1947
- Home of record
- Greencastle, Pennsylvania (Franklin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 17, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date September 17, 1967; three of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Con Thien was under way. Through September and October 1967, North Vietnamese artillery across the Demilitarized Zone pounded the Marine outpost at Con Thien and the bases along the DMZ in Quảng Trị Province. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 26E, Line 86
- WILFRED M PEREZSergeant First Class · September 17, 1967
- NOEL WAYNE ROBERTSPrivate First Class · September 17, 1967
- CONRAD ANTHONY STYBELFirst Lieutenant · September 17, 1967
- GENE LEANDER TWEHOUSHospitalman · September 17, 1967
From Greencastle
- JOSEPH ROBERT BECK JRSpecialist Five · October 26, 1967
- THOMAS RAY COOK JRPrivate First Class · July 26, 1968
- ROBERT WAYNE BOWMANSpecialist Six · March 15, 1969
- RANDY TRUMAN KENDLEPrivate First Class · May 12, 1969
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.