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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Warren Cecil Parsons JR.

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WARREN CECIL PARSONS JR

Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

June 9, 1946 – April 20, 1968

Service record

Warren Cecil Parsons JR, of Crystal City, Missouri, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 20, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 51E, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 51E · Line 12

Position of Panel 51E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Regular
Born
June 9, 1946
Home of record
Crystal City, Missouri (Jefferson County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 20, 1968
Age
21
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

52 names on the Wall carry the date April 20, 1968; eight of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 51E, Line 12

From Crystal City

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.