LCpl Skinner #2250322
MOS: 0351 Antitank Assaultman
Phillip was born in and raised in Chicago and graduated from Parker High School, where he played on the football team and was a member of the high school swimming team.
After graduating from high school, he enrolled in a Negro College in Missouri where he had good grades but left to enlist in the Marines.
Phillip arrived in Vietnam and was assigned to the Weapons Platoon, Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division. He wrote home often, to his father, a Chicago policeman and WW II veteran, and his mother, who was divorced from his father, but she had re-married. In his letters to his father, he wrote about his ambition to finish his military service and join his father as a policeman. "When I get back from Vietnam, I'll go through police training," Phillip wrote "then we can be partners, Dad". Phillip didn't make it back from Vietnam. While carrying a rocket launcher up a hill during fierce combat, he was shot in the head and died, as a result enemy rifle fire at Hill 881N, and 8 kilometers west northwest of Khe Sanh Airfield, during Operation Beacon Star.
Phillip was single and served his country for 1 year and was KIA #11,891.
Tour of duty unknown.
He was 21 years and 10 days old.
Survived by his mother; Nancy L Davis of 5719 South Indiana Avenue, Chicago, IL and his father; Mr. Skinner of unknown address.
MOS: 0351 Antitank Assaultman
Phillip was born in and raised in Chicago and graduated from Parker High School, where he played on the football team and was a member of the high school swimming team.
After graduating from high school, he enrolled in a Negro College in Missouri where he had good grades but left to enlist in the Marines.
Phillip arrived in Vietnam and was assigned to the Weapons Platoon, Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division. He wrote home often, to his father, a Chicago policeman and WW II veteran, and his mother, who was divorced from his father, but she had re-married. In his letters to his father, he wrote about his ambition to finish his military service and join his father as a policeman. "When I get back from Vietnam, I'll go through police training," Phillip wrote "then we can be partners, Dad". Phillip didn't make it back from Vietnam. While carrying a rocket launcher up a hill during fierce combat, he was shot in the head and died, as a result enemy rifle fire at Hill 881N, and 8 kilometers west northwest of Khe Sanh Airfield, during Operation Beacon Star.
Phillip was single and served his country for 1 year and was KIA #11,891.
Tour of duty unknown.
He was 21 years and 10 days old.
Survived by his mother; Nancy L Davis of 5719 South Indiana Avenue, Chicago, IL and his father; Mr. Skinner of unknown address.
LCpl Skinner #2250322
MOS: 0351 Antitank Assaultman
Phillip was born in and raised in Chicago and graduated from Parker High School, where he played on the football team and was a member of the high school swimming team.
After graduating from high school, he enrolled in a Negro College in Missouri where he had good grades but left to enlist in the Marines.
Phillip arrived in Vietnam and was assigned to the Weapons Platoon, Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division. He wrote home often, to his father, a Chicago policeman and WW II veteran, and his mother, who was divorced from his father, but she had re-married. In his letters to his father, he wrote about his ambition to finish his military service and join his father as a policeman. "When I get back from Vietnam, I'll go through police training," Phillip wrote "then we can be partners, Dad". Phillip didn't make it back from Vietnam. While carrying a rocket launcher up a hill during fierce combat, he was shot in the head and died, as a result enemy rifle fire at Hill 881N, and 8 kilometers west northwest of Khe Sanh Airfield, during Operation Beacon Star.
Phillip was single and served his country for 1 year and was KIA #11,891.
Tour of duty unknown.
He was 21 years and 10 days old.
Survived by his mother; Nancy L Davis of 5719 South Indiana Avenue, Chicago, IL and his father; Mr. Skinner of unknown address.
MOS: 0351 Antitank Assaultman
Phillip was born in and raised in Chicago and graduated from Parker High School, where he played on the football team and was a member of the high school swimming team.
After graduating from high school, he enrolled in a Negro College in Missouri where he had good grades but left to enlist in the Marines.
Phillip arrived in Vietnam and was assigned to the Weapons Platoon, Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division. He wrote home often, to his father, a Chicago policeman and WW II veteran, and his mother, who was divorced from his father, but she had re-married. In his letters to his father, he wrote about his ambition to finish his military service and join his father as a policeman. "When I get back from Vietnam, I'll go through police training," Phillip wrote "then we can be partners, Dad". Phillip didn't make it back from Vietnam. While carrying a rocket launcher up a hill during fierce combat, he was shot in the head and died, as a result enemy rifle fire at Hill 881N, and 8 kilometers west northwest of Khe Sanh Airfield, during Operation Beacon Star.
Phillip was single and served his country for 1 year and was KIA #11,891.
Tour of duty unknown.
He was 21 years and 10 days old.
Survived by his mother; Nancy L Davis of 5719 South Indiana Avenue, Chicago, IL and his father; Mr. Skinner of unknown address.
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