James Lamont Palmer

Private First Class
C CO, 1ST BN, 9TH MARINES, 3RD MARDIV
United States Marine Corps
04 May 1947 - 13 September 1966
Philadelphia, PA
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3RD MARDIV

9TH MARINES
Purple Heart, National Defense, Vietnam Service, Vietnam Campaign

The database page for James Lamont Palmer

03 Oct 2002

The following article is taken from The Philadelphia Daily News, special supplement entitled 'SIX HUNDRED AND THIRTY,' October 26, 1987.

The 1964 graduate of Overbrook High School joined the Marine Corps in January 1966. The 19-year-old private first class, a machine gunner in Company C of the 1st Battalion, 9th Marines, 3rd Marine Division, died in Da Nang, Quang Nam Province, Viet Nam, on September 13, 1966. He was survived by his parents, three brothers and two sisters.

SEMPER FIDELIS, MARINE!

From a native Philadelphian and Marine,
Jim McIlhenney
christianamacks@comcast.net





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