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TIMOTHY JOHN SHORTEN
First Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps
June 7, 1942 – March 31, 1968
Service recordTimothy John Shorten, of Garden City, New York, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 31, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 47E, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47E · Line 27
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
- First Lieutenant (1STLT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Infantry Officer (I) (0302)
- Born
- June 7, 1942
- Home of record
- Garden City, New York (Nassau County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 31, 1968
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date March 31, 1968; 11 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 47E, Line 27
- ARTHUR BURMAN SMITHSpecialist Four · March 31, 1968
- DANNY LYNN STEPHENSPrivate First Class · March 31, 1968
- EDWARD THOMAS STONE JRPrivate First Class · March 31, 1968
- THOMAS PAUL SWEENEYPrivate First Class · March 31, 1968
From Garden City
- RICHARD NASH MCINERNEYCaptain · March 11, 1967
- ROBERT ANTHONY KISCHSecond Lieutenant · July 29, 1967
- WALTER CHAPMAN JONES IIICaptain · April 4, 1968
- FREDERICK RICHARD OHLERSpecialist Four · April 11, 1968
- PHILIP FRANCIS SHERIDANLance Corporal · April 14, 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.