Cecil Everett Dorsey

Private First Class
1ST PLT, G CO, 2ND BN, 7TH MARINES, 1ST MARDIV
United States Marine Corps
24 December 1946 - 24 September 1966
Du Quion, Illinois
Panel 11E Line 007

1ST MARDIV

7TH MARINES
Cecil

Purple Heart, National Defense, Vietnam Service, Vietnam Campaign

The database page for Cecil Everett Dorsey

31 Dec 2001

We called him Skip, a nickname that had stuck with him since a child. He was only 19 when he was killed near Quang Tri. He wrote of terrible conditions he had to endure. He entered the service on Jan. 6, 1966 and was killed by Sept. 24. He was so young, had his whole life ahead of him yet. We wish he were still here.

Sadly missed by his sisters,
Myrtle, Diane and Pat
boles@midwest.net

A Note from The Virtual Wall

On 24 Sep 1966, Golf Company, 2/7 Marines, was one of the units involved in Operation Prairie in Quang Tri Province just south of the Demilitarized Zone. While moving through an unfamiliar area, the company came under intense mortar, machine-gun and sniper fire from what was later estimated to be a North Vietnamese regiment. By the time the fighting ended, Golf 2/7 had lost ten men, and Fox 2/7 two more:
  • F Company:
  • G Company:
    • Pfc Cecil E. Dorsey, Du Quion, IL
    • Pfc James E. Graham, Rochester, PA
    • Pfc John T. Klump, Marshallville, OH
    • Pfc Burns W. Knowlton, Pittsfield, ME
    • LCpl Rexford A. Larock, Parish, NY
    • HN Gerald C. McKeen, Sac City, IA (Navy Cross) (H&S Co with Golf 2/7)
    • Sgt Clyde Minix, North Judson, IN
    • Sgt Robert P. Minor, Philadelphia, PA
    • Pfc Howard G. Morrison, Elko, NV
    • Pfc Daniel J. Rusnell, Vestaburg, MI


The point-of-contact for this memorial is
his sisters.
boles@midwest.net 
31 Dec 2001



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