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PHILLIP MALCOLM PIERCE JR
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
August 15, 1947 – July 22, 1966
Service recordPhillip Malcolm Pierce JR, of Augusta, Georgia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 22, 1966, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 9E, Line 59 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 9E · Line 59
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
- August 15, 1947
- Home of record
- Augusta, Georgia (Richmond County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 22, 1966
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date July 22, 1966; 21 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In July 1966, 562 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 9E, Line 59
- RUSSELL EUGENE PESEWONITPrivate First Class · July 22, 1966
- JOHN WALTER REAGANCorporal · July 22, 1966
- JUAN DIEGO SANCHEZPrivate First Class · July 22, 1966
- CHESTER JOHN SIMMONSPrivate First Class · July 22, 1966
From Augusta
- WILLIAM JEFFERSON LINDSEYPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- TOMMIE GARRETTCorporal · December 18, 1965
- PAUL EUGENE SWIMPlatoon Sergeant · May 8, 1966
- ROGER DORSEYPrivate First Class · May 10, 1966
- PHILLIP JACOB MOOGSecond Lieutenant · August 10, 1966
- HOWARD D ULMER JRFirst Lieutenant · October 3, 1966
- WILLIAM FORSYTH SPERRYSpecialist Four · November 13, 1966
- ROBERT RICHARDSONPrivate First Class · June 3, 1967
- GERALD WAYNE INGLETTPrivate First Class · June 4, 1967
- WILLIAM D SIZEMORESergeant First Class · June 28, 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.