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Gunners of the 2nd Battalion, 32nd Artillery prepare to fire a 175 mm gun.
Gunners of the 2nd Battalion, 32nd Artillery prepare to fire a 175 mm gun. Photo: SP5 Kevin Malone, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Pierre Anatole Threet.

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PIERRE ANATOLE THREET

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

July 18, 1948 – September 19, 1967

Service record

Pierre Anatole Threet, of Buffalo, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 19, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 26E, Line 94 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 26E · Line 94

Position of Panel 26E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
July 18, 1948
Home of record
Buffalo, New York (Erie County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 19, 1967
Age
19
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

22 names on the Wall carry the date September 19, 1967; four 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 94

From Buffalo

All 151 names from Buffalo →

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.