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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 Terry Wayne Shalhoob.

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TERRY WAYNE SHALHOOB

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

March 31, 1946 – December 23, 1966

Service record

Terry Wayne Shalhoob, of Santa Barbara, California, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 23, 1966, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 13E, Line 76 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 13E · Line 76

Position of Panel 13E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Lance Corporal (LCPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
March 31, 1946
Home of record
Santa Barbara, California (Santa Barbara County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 23, 1966
Age
20
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

17 names on the Wall carry the date December 23, 1966; he was the only one lost in Quảng Trị Province that day. In December 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 13E, Line 76

From Santa Barbara

All 28 names from Santa Barbara →

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.