The Wall › Panel 65W › Utah › Scott Bruce Salter
SCOTT BRUCE SALTER
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 12, 1949 – May 27, 1968
Service recordScott Bruce Salter, of Magna, Utah, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 27, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 65W, Line 14 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 65W · Line 14
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.
Remember
Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.
Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- January 12, 1949
- Home of record
- Magna, Utah (Salt Lake County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 27, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
78 names on the Wall carry the date May 27, 1968; 25 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 65W, Line 14
- EARL DONALD REEDAirman First Class · May 27, 1968
- MERRILL DALE REICH JRFirst Lieutenant · May 27, 1968
- HECTOR RIVERA-COLONSergeant First Class · May 27, 1968
- KENNETH RAY RUCKERSergeant · May 27, 1968
From Magna
- RONALD VICTOR BACCAPrivate · October 30, 1965
- KENNETH LYNN MADDYPrivate First Class · October 28, 1966
- MICHAEL HOWARD YEATESLance Corporal · March 13, 1969
- ROBERT CLAY VANVLEETPrivate First Class · May 26, 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.