Bruce Alen Marron was born May 11, 1947 in Peabody, Mass. He was drafted to serve as a Private First Class Light Weapons Infantry in the U.S. Army. He was killed in hostile action on July 20, 1968 of multi-fragment wounds in Military Region 1, Thua Thien. His body was recovered. National Archives and Records Administration. Vietnam War: U.S. Military Casualties, 1956-1998 [database online]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. Original data: Coffelt Database [Archival Database]; Records with Unit Information on Military Personnel Who Died During the Vietnam Conflict, ca. 1983-6/19/2002; Collection COFF: Richard Coffelt, Richard Arnold, and David Argabright Collection; National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD. Combat Area Casualties Current File, 6/6/1956-1/21/1998 [Archival Database]; Records on Military Personnel Who Died, Were Missing in Action or Prisoners of War as a Result of the Vietnam Conflict, 1/20/1967-12/1998; Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330; National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD.