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LCpl Danny Eric Goodwin

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LCpl Danny Eric Goodwin Veteran

Birth
Argyle Sound, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, Canada
Death
24 Aug 1967 (aged 20)
Quảng Nam, Vietnam
Burial
Salem, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA GPS-Latitude: 42.7931213, Longitude: -71.1994095
Plot
Section Q, VFW Lot, Row A
Memorial ID
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Danny was the son of Leonard Goodwin and Cora Goodwin of South Yarmouth MA who enlisted in the US Marines on May 31, 1966 in Boston MA. He served in Vietnam with Company A, 1st Engineer Battalion, 1st MARDIV (Rein). FMF.

Attached to the 1st Marines LCpl Goodwin was participating on a road sweep for enemy explosive devices on route 4 in the Dien Ban District of Quang Nam Province. As the team of Marines were moving along the road in the vicinity of the Nhi Kinh village complex there was an explosion causing a six by six foot crater in the road killing LCpl Goodwin by the blast and fragmentation wounds from the hostile device.
Danny was the son of Leonard Goodwin and Cora Goodwin of South Yarmouth MA who enlisted in the US Marines on May 31, 1966 in Boston MA. He served in Vietnam with Company A, 1st Engineer Battalion, 1st MARDIV (Rein). FMF.

Attached to the 1st Marines LCpl Goodwin was participating on a road sweep for enemy explosive devices on route 4 in the Dien Ban District of Quang Nam Province. As the team of Marines were moving along the road in the vicinity of the Nhi Kinh village complex there was an explosion causing a six by six foot crater in the road killing LCpl Goodwin by the blast and fragmentation wounds from the hostile device.

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