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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 Ronald Brett Cassell.

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RONALD BRETT CASSELL

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

April 7, 1948 – March 21, 1969

Service record

Ronald Brett Cassell, of Baltimore, Maryland, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 21, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 29W, Line 96 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 29W · Line 96

Position of Panel 29W 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
Lance Corporal (LCPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Shore Party Specialist (1381)
Born
April 7, 1948
Home of record
Baltimore, Maryland (Baltimore (City) County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 21, 1969
Age
20
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

83 names on the Wall carry the date March 21, 1969; seven of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 29W, Line 96

From Baltimore

All 419 names from Baltimore →

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.