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Marines of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade after landing at Đà Nẵng, March 1965.
Marines of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade after landing at Đà Nẵng, March 1965. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Tyrone Sidney Pannell.

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TYRONE SIDNEY PANNELL

Second Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps

October 23, 1941 – November 30, 1965

Service record

Tyrone Sidney Pannell, of Amityville, New York, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on November 30, 1965, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 3E, Line 118 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 3E · Line 118

Position of Panel 3E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Second Lieutenant (2NDLT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Infantry Officer (I) (0302)
Born
October 23, 1941
Home of record
Amityville, New York (Suffolk County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 30, 1965
Age
24
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

Three names on the Wall carry the date November 30, 1965; he was the only one lost in Quảng Tín Province that day. In November 1965, 545 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 3E, Line 118

From Amityville

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.