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RAYMOND GENE SKAGGS
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
June 28, 1940 – November 6, 1968
Service recordRaymond Gene Skaggs, of New Boston, Ohio, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on November 6, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 39W, Line 30 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39W · Line 30
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Leader (0369)
- Born
- June 28, 1940
- Home of record
- New Boston, Ohio (Scioto County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 6, 1968
- Age
- 28
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date November 6, 1968; 13 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 39W, Line 30
- DUNCAN BALFOUR SLEIGHSecond Lieutenant · November 6, 1968
- RAFAEL SOLERLance Corporal · November 6, 1968
- JAMES MICHAEL TIMMONSPrivate First Class · November 6, 1968
- FREDRICK RAY TURNERLance Corporal · November 6, 1968
From New Boston
- GARY OLSON HOLSINGERCorporal · March 4, 1968
- DONALD LEE JUSTICEPrivate First Class · May 22, 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.