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QUENTON EDWARD SLOCUM JR
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
September 11, 1946 – May 17, 1968
Service recordQuenton Edward Slocum JR, of Warren, Pennsylvania, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on May 17, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 62E, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 62E · Line 12
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 3 BN 27 MAR 1 MARDIV
- Born
- September 11, 1946
- Home of record
- Warren, Pennsylvania (Warren County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 17, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
85 names on the Wall carry the date May 17, 1968; 32 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “3 BN 27 MAR 1 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 62E, Line 12
- WILBUR ARNOLD SKAARMajor · May 17, 1968
- JOHN CHARLES SMITHLance Corporal · May 17, 1968
- VINCENT JAMES STAMATO JRPrivate First Class · May 17, 1968
- GEORGE THOMAS JRPrivate First Class · May 17, 1968
From Warren
- ROBERT HOWARD FUELLHARTCaptain · August 12, 1965
- WILLIAM DANIEL NUHFERSpecialist Four · January 27, 1969
- WILLIAM DAVID LOUNSBURYPrivate First Class · July 21, 1969
- FRED WILLIAM SHATTUCK JRMajor · July 19, 1969
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.