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VERNAR SLOAN
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
March 27, 1947 – July 26, 1968
Service recordVernar Sloan, of Bennettsville, South Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 26, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 50W, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 50W · Line 13
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
- March 27, 1947
- Home of record
- Bennettsville, South Carolina (Marlboro County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 26, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date July 26, 1968; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 50W, Line 13
- GENE ALLEN FRAZIERSergeant · July 26, 1968
- STEVEN ARTHUR FRINKPrivate First Class · July 26, 1968
- ALLEN JEROME GROVNERLance Corporal · July 26, 1968
- RICHARD WILLIS HANLEYLance Corporal · July 26, 1968
From Bennettsville
- GORDON SAMUEL HUGGINSPlatoon Sergeant · November 1, 1965
- JIMMY EARL MUMFORDCorporal · February 5, 1967
- DONALD BURRIS POPELance Corporal · February 19, 1967
- BOBBY SPENCER MALICHISergeant First Class · December 25, 1968
- GEORGE DEWEY QUICK JRPrivate First Class · January 22, 1970
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.