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WILLIAM FREDERICK MARASCO
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
February 4, 1949 – December 4, 1968
Service recordWilliam Frederick Marasco, of Rochester, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 4, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 40 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 40
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 4, 1949
- Home of record
- Rochester, New York (Monroe County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 4, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
35 names on the Wall carry the date December 4, 1968; ten of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 37W, Line 40
- JAMES EDWARD JONESCorporal · December 4, 1968
- WILLIE GERALD JONESSpecialist Four · December 4, 1968
- JEROME ALBERT LONGPrivate First Class · December 4, 1968
- RICHARD EDMUND NITSCHE JRSpecialist Four · December 4, 1968
From Rochester
- EUGENE RICHARDSONAirman First Class · October 24, 1964
- JOHN E EHRMENTRAUT JRPrivate First Class · April 24, 1965
- ALBERT S KNIGHT IIILance Corporal · June 22, 1965
- JOHN BERNARD TETTEPrivate First Class · August 18, 1965
- GEORGE STEPHEN BALAZYPrivate First Class · September 12, 1965
- JOSEPH CHRISTIANOColonel · December 24, 1965
- NOEL MICHAEL BARTOLFPrivate First Class · January 2, 1966
- NICHOLES SOCHACKIPrivate First Class · February 25, 1966
- RICHARD FLOYD SMITHPrivate First Class · March 16, 1966
- ROBERT JULIUS VANREYPENPrivate First Class · March 27, 1966
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.