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WILLIAM IVOR TENNEY BACON
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
October 18, 1939 – June 29, 1967
Service recordWilliam Ivor Tenney Bacon, of Rye, New York, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 29, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 22E, Line 82 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 22E · Line 82
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Intelligence Specialist (0231)
- Born
- October 18, 1939
- Home of record
- Rye, New York (Westchester County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 29, 1967
- Age
- 27
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date June 29, 1967; seven of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 22E, Line 82
- FREDDIE LEE ALLENPrivate First Class · June 29, 1967
- DAVID EUGENE BOYERCorporal · June 29, 1967
- JERRY RAY CARTERLance Corporal · June 29, 1967
- CLINTON E CROFFORDStaff Sergeant · June 29, 1967
From Rye
- CHARLES EDWARD REINERPrivate First Class · May 17, 1968
- PAUL MARTIN MCGRATHSecond Lieutenant · June 7, 1968
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.