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WILLIAM RAYMOND GENDEBIEN
First Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps
August 29, 1941 – October 26, 1965
Service recordWilliam Raymond Gendebien, of Barto, Pennsylvania, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on October 26, 1965, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 136 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2E · Line 136
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
- First Lieutenant (1STLT)
- Service
- Regular
- Born
- August 29, 1941
- Home of record
- Barto, Pennsylvania (Berks County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 26, 1965
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
Ten names on the Wall carry the date October 26, 1965; five of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In October 1965, 236 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 2E, Line 136
- JOHN BUNCE MCHALEFirst Lieutenant · October 26, 1965
- ROBERT EDWIN SWANSONPrivate First Class · October 26, 1965
- WILLIAM JENNINGS TEBOWCaptain · October 26, 1965
- RANDELL GENE TRAILLance Corporal · October 26, 1965
From Barto
- TERRY LEE MOSERSpecialist Four · March 12, 1970
- RICHARD ALLEN MOHRSergeant · March 17, 1970
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.