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Marines of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade after landing at Đà Nẵng, March 1965.
Marines of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade after landing at Đà Nẵng, March 1965. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Ronald Harvey McNees.

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RONALD HARVEY MCNEES

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

April 12, 1944 – June 5, 1965

Service record

Ronald Harvey McNees, of Sunland, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 5, 1965, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 1E, Line 131 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 1E · Line 131

Position of Panel 1E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
General Service Marine (9900)
Born
April 12, 1944
Home of record
Sunland, California (Los Angeles County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 5, 1965
Age
21
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

Three names on the Wall carry the date June 5, 1965; three of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In June 1965, 146 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 1E, Line 131

From Sunland

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.