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VICTOR JOHN PIRKER
Gunnery Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
June 27, 1940 – November 22, 1965
Service recordVictor John Pirker, of Trout Creek, Montana, served as a Gunnery Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He was lost on November 22, 1965, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 3E, Line 108 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 3E · Line 108
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
- Gunnery Sergeant (GYSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Aircraft Cryptographic Systems Technician, Ima (6422)
- Unit (as recorded)
- HMM 362 MAG 36 1 MAW
- Born
- June 27, 1940
- Home of record
- Trout Creek, Montana (Sanders County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- November 22, 1965
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date November 22, 1965; three of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In November 1965, 545 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “HMM 362 MAG 36 1 MAW”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
Also on Panel 3E, Line 108
- ROBERT MICHAEL LATHROPEPetty Officer Third Class · August 24, 1965
- BILLY WAYNE HEDGECorporal · November 22, 1965
- VILIS LISMENTSCorporal · November 22, 1965
- RICHARD ARTHUR MILLERMajor · November 22, 1965
- MOSES CLARK TABORStaff Sergeant · November 22, 1965
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS EVAN DOUGLASStaff Sergeant · Panel 3E, Line 107
- RICHARD ARTHUR MILLERMajor · Panel 3E, Line 108
- FRANCIS EDWARD VISCONTIMajor · Panel 3E, Line 109
From Trout Creek
- ROY STEPHEN THOMASWarrant Officer 1 · May 10, 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.