Marshall, Danny Glen Marines

Danny Glen Marshall from Waverly, West Virginia, Wood county.

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Thursday, May 15, 1975
Death details:  Shortly after midnight on May 15, 1975, three Marines made up an M-60 machine gun team that was part of a Marine force making a helicopter-borne assault on enemy holdings on Koh Tang Island, Cambodia. They participated in combat operations throughout the day and were not known to be injured or wounded at any point. On the evening of May 15 orders were given to pull back to the beach of the island for extraction and to set up a new defensive position. The three Marines left their initial defensive position and started back to the beach; however, only one was sighted on the beach, and when the extraction was finished that night, all three Marines were missing. Enemy activity in the area prevented a return to the beach in order to search for them, and they remain unaccounted-for.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency