FORCE RECON Allen, Merlin Raye

John Robertson

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Staff member
  • SURNAME
Allen
  • FORENAME
Merlin Raye
  • UNIT
3 Recon Bn (3 MarDiv) (A Company)
  • RANK
Lance Corporal
  • NUMBER
2163227
  • DATE OF DEATH
30th June 1967
  • AGE
20
  • GRAVESITE
York Island Cemetery, Red Cliff, Bayfield County, Wisconsin, USA
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
from Bayfield,Wisconsin
born 22.10.1946
father Alden E. Allen (1914-2001)
mother Eleanor O. Allen (1924-1999) of Little Sand Bay and York Island, Wisconsin
single
graduated Omro High School 1965
enlisted 20.01.1966
1 year service
KIA in CH46A helicopter crash Thua Thien Province,South Vietnam
remains not recovered
2012 remains recovered and returned to family for burial in Wisconsin
2017 additional remains recovered including those of three other previously unrecovered victims and buried in Arlington
Honolulu Memorial,Honolulu,Hawaii Courts of the Missing
Vietnam Veterans Memorial,Washington,D.C. Panel 22E Line 86
 
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