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WILLIAM LUNN MARLIN JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 25, 1948 – January 24, 1968
Service recordWilliam Lunn Marlin JR, of Burns, Tennessee, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 24, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35E · Line 24
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. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- January 25, 1948
- Home of record
- Burns, Tennessee (Dickson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 24, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
46 names on the Wall carry the date January 24, 1968; six of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 169 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 35E, Line 24
- CLAYTON MONROE HOLLAND JRPrivate First Class · January 24, 1968
- ROBERT JAMES MCCARLCorporal · January 24, 1968
- CHARLES WAYNE MILLERHospitalman · January 24, 1968
- ROBERT J MILLERCorporal · January 24, 1968
Same unit, same day
- BOBBIE LEE DITZFELDSergeant · Panel 35E, Line 20
- RONALD ALFRED GALANTESpecialist Four · Panel 35E, Line 20
- JAMES MILLERSpecialist Four · Panel 35E, Line 22
- PETER LOUIS LOVETTPrivate First Class · Panel 35E, Line 23
- GARY LEIGH NORDQUISTSergeant · Panel 35E, Line 25
From Burns
- BENJAMIN S UNDERHILLSpecialist Four · February 15, 1968
- DENNIS ODELL HARGROVESpecialist Four · September 24, 1987
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.