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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Raymond Plumey.

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RAYMOND PLUMEY

Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps

April 25, 1946 – November 21, 1967

Service record

Raymond Plumey, of New York, New York, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on November 21, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 58 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 30E · Line 58

Position of Panel 30E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Assaultman (0351)
Born
April 25, 1946
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 21, 1967
Age
21
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

43 names on the Wall carry the date November 21, 1967; four of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 30E, Line 58

From New York

All 1370 names from New York →

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.