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RAYMOND HOWARD HIGHLEY
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
August 18, 1948 – December 11, 1968
Service recordRaymond Howard Highley, of Williamson, West Virginia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 11, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36W · Line 7
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
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- August 18, 1948
- Home of record
- Williamson, West Virginia (Mingo County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 11, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
47 names on the Wall carry the date December 11, 1968; six of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 36W, Line 7
- VINCENT RALPH SALEMIPrivate First Class · December 11, 1968
- BOBBY GENE SIMPSONPrivate First Class · December 11, 1968
- TIMOTHY DAVID STICKLEPrivate First Class · December 11, 1968
- WILLIAM JAMES SUGDENSpecialist Four · December 11, 1968
From Williamson
- LAWRENCE BUFORD PRATERSergeant · October 27, 1967
- WILLIAM WAYNE LESTERSpecialist Four · October 22, 1968
- RELL CRIGGER JRCorporal · February 2, 1969
- WILLIAM EUGENE NULLPrivate First Class · February 23, 1969
- MARVIN BLAIR STUART JRSpecialist Four · July 24, 1971
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.