Tag: Marshalltown Iowa

Darwin Lee Judge, age 19, from Marshalltown, Iowa, Marshall county.

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Tuesday, April 29, 1975

Parents: Henry and Ida Judge

School: Marshalltown High (1974)
Death details: On February 26, 1976, the Central Identification Laboratory-Hawaii (CILH, now DPAA) identified the remains of Lance Corporal Darwin Lee Judge, missing from the Vietnam War.
Lance Corporal Judge joined the U.S. Marine Corps from Iowa and was a member of the Marine Security Guard Battalion stationed at the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, adjacent to Tan Son Nhut Air Base. On April 29, 1975, he was killed by an enemy rocket that hit his position outside of the embassy. His remains were taken to the Seventh Day Adventist Hospital in Saigon; however, they were not recovered during the U.S. evacuation from Saigon the next day. In February 1976, the Vietnamese government returned LCpl Judge’s remains to U.S. custody.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Ames Daily Tribune (1975)

Randy Lee Mast, age 21, from Marshalltown, Iowa, Marshall county.

Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Beaman-Conrad High graduate

Date of death: Friday, June 5, 1970
Death details: Hostile in South Vietnam

Source: National Archives, Cedar Rapids Gazette (1970)