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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Worley Wayne Hall.

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WORLEY WAYNE HALL

Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

September 15, 1946 – March 27, 1967

Service record

Worley Wayne Hall, of Shouns, Tennessee, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 27, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 57 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 17E · Line 57

Position of Panel 17E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
September 15, 1946
Home of record
Shouns, Tennessee (Johnson County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 27, 1967
Age
20
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

18 names on the Wall carry the date March 27, 1967; three of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 17E, Line 57

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.