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RANDY GENE TOTTEN
Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
May 22, 1945 – May 17, 1966
Service recordRandy Gene Totten, of Reed City, Michigan, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 17, 1966, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 7E, Line 77 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 7E · Line 77
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Radio Telegraph Operator (2533)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 FORCE 3 RECON BN 3 MARDIV
- Born
- May 22, 1945
- Home of record
- Reed City, Michigan (Osceola County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 17, 1966
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
62 names on the Wall carry the date May 17, 1966; four of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 7E, Line 77
- DALE E UMBENHAUERPrivate First Class · May 17, 1966
- JESSE FLOYD WAGESSpecialist Four · May 17, 1966
- JAMES EDWARD WALKERSpecialist Four · May 17, 1966
- WILLIAM E WALTERSSergeant · May 17, 1966
From Reed City
- RONALD HENRY MISSergeant · October 2, 1966
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.