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RANCE ALDEN MCEACHERN JR
Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
March 31, 1946 – July 14, 1968
Service recordRance Alden McEachern JR, of Greenville, Maine, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 14, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 52W, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 52W · Line 29
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Engineer Equipment Operator (1345)
- Born
- March 31, 1946
- Home of record
- Greenville, Maine (Piscataquis County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 14, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date July 14, 1968; 13 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 52W, Line 29
- GERALD ANTHONY MCCALLStaff Sergeant · July 14, 1968
- JAMES EDWARD MCCLAFFERTYSergeant · July 14, 1968
- GILBERT MORALESSergeant First Class · July 14, 1968
- DONALD LEROY MURPHYSeaman · July 14, 1968
From Greenville
- EDWIN BYRON RYDERSergeant First Class · August 31, 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.