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VERLON HADLEY
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
February 4, 1947 – August 18, 1965
Service recordVerlon Hadley, of Bay Minette, Alabama, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 18, 1965, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 57 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2E · Line 57
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
- Lance Corporal (LCPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Assault Amphibious Vehicle Crewman (1833)
- Born
- February 4, 1947
- Home of record
- Bay Minette, Alabama (Baldwin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 18, 1965
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date August 18, 1965; 45 of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In August 1965, 179 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Tín Province while Operation Starlite was under way. Operation Starlite (18–24 August 1965), on the Van Tuong peninsula south of Chu Lai, was the first regimental-size U.S. ground battle of the war. Marines attacked the 1st Viet Cong Regiment by helicopter, amphibious landing and on foot. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 2E, Line 57
- BRUCE JAMES HENRICHPrivate First Class · August 18, 1965
- CHARLES EARNEST IANNUZZICorporal · August 18, 1965
- JOHN L JEMISONPrivate First Class · August 18, 1965
- HENRY CRAWLEY JORDANPrivate First Class · August 18, 1965
From Bay Minette
- JACK A SMITHSpecialist Four · April 6, 1966
- CARL HAMBY PRESNALLSergeant · June 20, 1967
- GEORGE BLUE LEEMajor · June 20, 1967
- JOHNNY KENDRICK PARKERCorporal · July 20, 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.