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PRESTON HARRY TURNER JR
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
February 15, 1948 – June 3, 1967
Service recordPreston Harry Turner JR, of Trenton, New Jersey, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 3, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 54 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21E · Line 54
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
- Mortarman (0341)
- Born
- February 15, 1948
- Home of record
- Trenton, New Jersey (Mercer County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 3, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
70 names on the Wall carry the date June 3, 1967; 41 of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 21E, Line 54
- GEORGE DAVID WALLACESergeant · June 3, 1967
- JAMES ALLAN WEEDPrivate First Class · June 3, 1967
- JERELD EUGENE WESTPHALLance Corporal · June 3, 1967
- DANIEL WESLEY WHITEPrivate First Class · June 3, 1967
From Trenton
- LEON JOSEPH KRAMERCaptain · January 31, 1963
- CARL ROBERT STEFFENPrivate First Class · December 25, 1965
- DENNIS JAMES BROPHYPrivate First Class · January 29, 1966
- JAMES EDWARD THOMPSONSergeant · February 13, 1966
- SHERMAN CHAPMAN JRSergeant First Class · June 23, 1966
- CLIFFORD RUSSELL STOUTPrivate First Class · November 21, 1966
- JOHN DONALD OSSMENPrivate First Class · February 21, 1967
- WILLIE DOWLING JRSpecialist Four · March 11, 1967
- ERWIN JOHN HAARWALDTPrivate First Class · March 20, 1967
- JOHN STEPHEN SZYMANSKIStaff Sergeant · March 23, 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.