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TOM EDWIN BOREN
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
April 4, 1947 – June 10, 1966
Service recordTom Edwin Boren, of Fayetteville, Georgia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 10, 1966, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 8E, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 8E · Line 29
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
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Unit (as recorded)
- D CO 1 BN 1 MAR 1 MARDIV
- Born
- April 4, 1947
- Home of record
- Fayetteville, Georgia (Fayette County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 10, 1966
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date June 10, 1966; six of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In June 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “D CO 1 BN 1 MAR 1 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 8E, Line 29
- JAMES EARNEST SHUYLERPrivate First Class · June 9, 1966
- CHARLES VAN TURLEYPrivate First Class · June 9, 1966
- RALPH GENE WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · June 9, 1966
- WALTER WILLIAMS JRSpecialist Four · June 9, 1966
From Fayetteville
- JOSEPH LAMAR HYATTSpecialist Four · November 13, 1967
- OTIS RAYMOND SIMPSONSpecialist Five · November 4, 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.