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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 Glen Noble.

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RONALD GLEN NOBLE

Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

May 27, 1948 – August 26, 1968

Service record

Ronald Glen Noble, of Royal Oak, Michigan, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 26, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 46W, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 46W · Line 32

Position of Panel 46W 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
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
May 27, 1948
Home of record
Royal Oak, Michigan (Oakland County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 26, 1968
Age
20
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

53 names on the Wall carry the date August 26, 1968; three of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 46W, Line 32

From Royal Oak

All 32 names from Royal Oak →

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.