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WILLIAM ARAM MARKARIAN
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
February 3, 1948 – January 7, 1968
Service recordWilliam Aram Markarian, of Simsbury, Connecticut, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 7, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 33E, Line 72 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 33E · Line 72
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
- February 3, 1948
- Home of record
- Simsbury, Connecticut (Hartford County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 7, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
77 names on the Wall carry the date January 7, 1968; 27 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 33E, Line 72
- ALLAN MENDELLLance Corporal · January 7, 1968
- ARTHUR MILLER JRPrivate First Class · January 7, 1968
- DONALD EUGENE MONKMANPrivate First Class · January 7, 1968
- ELLIOTT WAYNE MOORECorporal · January 7, 1968
From Simsbury
- RICHARD WARD KEITHLINEFirst Lieutenant · February 28, 1969
- ARTHUR ALBERT SMITHSergeant · January 28, 1971
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.