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TERRY MICHAEL ABBOTT
Private · U.S. Marine Corps
May 8, 1949 – February 22, 1968
Service recordTerry Michael Abbott, of Lancaster, New Hampshire, served as a Private in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 22, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 40E, Line 57 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40E · Line 57
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private (PVT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Assaultman (0351)
- Born
- May 8, 1949
- Home of record
- Lancaster, New Hampshire (Coos County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 22, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
76 names on the Wall carry the date February 22, 1968; 27 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Huế was under way. At Huế (31 January–2 March 1968), Marines, soldiers of the 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne divisions and South Vietnamese troops fought house to house for 26 days to retake the old imperial capital, the longest urban battle of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 40E, Line 57
- JOHN ROBERT ALLISONPrivate First Class · February 22, 1968
- SAMUEL LEE ANDERTONSpecialist Four · February 22, 1968
- WILLIAM E G BOBBITTFirst Lieutenant · February 22, 1968
- MAURICE BOGGUESSPrivate · February 22, 1968
From Lancaster
- CECIL ANGUS BROOME JRStaff Sergeant · May 26, 1966
- CHARLES JOSEPH DICKEYFirst Lieutenant · July 7, 1968
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.