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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 Terrence Conway.

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RAYMOND TERRENCE CONWAY

Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps

September 19, 1944 – September 19, 1968

Service record

Raymond Terrence Conway, of Miami, Florida, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 19, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 43W, Line 34 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 43W · Line 34

Position of Panel 43W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Combat Engineer (1371)
Born
September 19, 1944
Home of record
Miami, Florida (Dade County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 19, 1968
Age
24
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

58 names on the Wall carry the date September 19, 1968; 18 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 43W, Line 34

From Miami

All 179 names from Miami →

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.