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RAYMOND WOODROW TEMPLETON
Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
August 17, 1943 – June 11, 1968
Service recordRaymond Woodrow Templeton, of Dos Palos, California, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 11, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 58W, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 58W · Line 29
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
- Born
- August 17, 1943
- Home of record
- Dos Palos, California (Merced County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 11, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
51 names on the Wall carry the date June 11, 1968; ten of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 58W, Line 29
- CHARLES EDWIN LEEPrivate First Class · June 11, 1968
- DAVID MONROE PRUITTSergeant · June 11, 1968
- THEODORE PAUL RAYMONDCorporal · June 11, 1968
- BERNARD JAMES SNEAD JRPrivate First Class · June 11, 1968
From Dos Palos
- DEAN NELSON RASCHKESergeant · June 16, 1967
- DILLARD GALE RYEStaff Sergeant · February 10, 1968
- LINUS ROBERT ROECorporal · February 11, 1969
- SHERMAN DALTON MONKPrivate First Class · September 11, 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.