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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 Lee McDuffie.

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RONALD LEE MCDUFFIE

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

March 15, 1948 – January 15, 1968

Service record

Ronald Lee McDuffie, of Gary, Indiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 15, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 34E, Line 56 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 34E · Line 56

Position of Panel 34E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Machinegunner (0331)
Born
March 15, 1948
Home of record
Gary, Indiana (Lake County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 15, 1968
Age
19
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

30 names on the Wall carry the date January 15, 1968; three of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 34E, Line 56

From Gary

All 94 names from Gary →

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.