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RAYMOND ROGER DEMOE
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
December 24, 1947 – March 25, 1967
Service recordRaymond Roger Demoe, of Elk Mound, Wisconsin, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 25, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 43 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 43
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
- Field Radio Operator (2531)
- Unit (as recorded)
- HS CO 3 BN 3 MAR 3 MARDIV
- Born
- December 24, 1947
- Home of record
- Elk Mound, Wisconsin (Dunn County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 25, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date March 25, 1967; 13 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “HS CO 3 BN 3 MAR 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 17E, Line 43
- ROBERT LEE BURDETTEPrivate First Class · March 25, 1967
- JAMES WILLIAM EVANSPrivate First Class · March 25, 1967
- ALBERT CLIFTON FILES JRSergeant · March 25, 1967
- PEDRO INCARNACION GARCIASergeant · March 25, 1967
Same unit, same day
- DAVID H COOPER IISecond Lieutenant · Panel 17E, Line 42
From Elk Mound
- JAMES MICHAEL ARRIESPrivate First Class · April 1, 1967
- ROGER ALLEN PEDERSONSpecialist Four · March 29, 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.