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PETER PATRICK MURNER JR
Second Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps
May 13, 1945 – August 26, 1968
Service recordPeter Patrick Murner JR, of Hillsdale, New Jersey, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 26, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 46W, Line 31 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46W · Line 31
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
- Second Lieutenant (2NDLT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Basic Motor Transport Officer (I) (3501)
- Born
- May 13, 1945
- Home of record
- Hillsdale, New Jersey (Bergen County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 26, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
53 names on the Wall carry the date August 26, 1968; 18 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 46W, Line 31
- RALPH WILLIAM MANNERSFirst Lieutenant · August 26, 1968
- BRUCE MAYO MCCLELLANSpecialist Five · August 26, 1968
- MICHAEL OWEN MELLONCorporal · August 26, 1968
- ROBERT J MORRISPrivate First Class · August 26, 1968
From Hillsdale
- MICHAEL CONRAD ROELLPrivate First Class · May 26, 1967
- GEORGE ALBERT POOR JRPrivate First Class · June 22, 1967
- ERNIE JON ELFENBEINCorporal · October 6, 1967
- EDWARD MICHAEL MAHER JRFirst Lieutenant · August 2, 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.