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TED DEWAINE BROOMFIELD
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
December 11, 1946 – November 12, 1966
Service recordTed Dewaine Broomfield, of Dodson, Louisiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on November 12, 1966, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 12E, Line 59 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 12E · Line 59
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Born
- December 11, 1946
- Home of record
- Dodson, Louisiana
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 12, 1966
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
38 names on the Wall carry the date November 12, 1966; 16 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In November 1966, 641 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 12E, Line 59
- KENNETH HORACE BLACKWELLPrivate First Class · November 12, 1966
- RONALD EDWARD BOCOOKPrivate First Class · November 12, 1966
- JAMES PHILLIP BROWNLance Corporal · November 12, 1966
- CHARLES MELVIN GOUDECorporal · November 12, 1966
From Dodson
- PERRY LEE PEOPLESLance Corporal · April 26, 1967
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.