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VAN CHAFFEE
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
August 19, 1946 – May 25, 1967
Service recordVan Chaffee, of Garfield Heights, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 25, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 101 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20E · Line 101
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- August 19, 1946
- Home of record
- Garfield Heights, Ohio (Cuyahoga County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 25, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Infectious Disease
Context · from the records
What was happening
49 names on the Wall carry the date May 25, 1967; 19 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 20E, Line 101
- MARTIN CARRANZALance Corporal · May 25, 1967
- JAMES GENIUS CLARKSergeant · May 25, 1967
- ALFRED COBOSPrivate First Class · May 25, 1967
- PETER MICHAEL COONSPrivate First Class · May 25, 1967
From Garfield Heights
- DAVID WILLIAM HARTLEYPrivate First Class · May 5, 1966
- WILLIAM RICHARD FRANCECorporal · September 6, 1967
- JAMES MICHAEL SUNDAYSpecialist Five · September 29, 1967
- DONALD RICHARD BRUCKNERSergeant · January 7, 1968
- WILLIAM JAMES PAPASergeant · May 5, 1968
- JOHN JAMES MATUSKASpecialist Four · September 29, 1968
- DANA LAWRENCE ZALESKIPrivate First Class · February 5, 1969
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.