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OSCAR KILPATRIC PORTER JR
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
February 10, 1950 – September 26, 1968
Service recordOscar Kilpatric Porter JR, of Albany, Georgia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 26, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 42W, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42W · Line 21
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
- February 10, 1950
- Home of record
- Albany, Georgia (Dougherty County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 26, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
55 names on the Wall carry the date September 26, 1968; four of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 42W, Line 21
- LARRY EDWARD WRIGHTAirman First Class · September 24, 1968
- CLARK EDMUND PEDENPrivate First Class · September 26, 1968
- JACK ALBERT PLUCINSKIFirst Lieutenant · September 26, 1968
- JAMES RANDALL PRUETTSergeant · September 26, 1968
- STEVEN PAUL RANCEPrivate First Class · September 26, 1968
From Albany
- JOSEPH EARNEST HIPPPrivate First Class · January 11, 1966
- BENJAMIN GEORGE SPEARSSergeant · March 7, 1966
- WILLIAM EARL COOPERColonel · April 24, 1966
- GLEN EVERETT WALLACEStaff Sergeant · May 19, 1966
- ROBERT LEE BARNESPrivate First Class · July 9, 1966
- ROBERT LEE DORSEYSergeant · August 16, 1966
- JOSEPH HUBERT GOINGS JRPrivate First Class · May 14, 1967
- DONNIE COLEMANSpecialist Four · September 7, 1967
- MARVIN ROYCE DAVISSergeant · December 15, 1967
- WILLIE JACKSONPrivate First Class · February 22, 1968
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.