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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Albert Aleya Outwater JR.

The Wall › Panel 23E › New Jersey › Albert Aleya Outwater JR

ALBERT ALEYA OUTWATER JR

Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps

March 25, 1946 – July 21, 1967

Service record

Albert Aleya Outwater JR, of Phillipsburg, New Jersey, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 21, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 102 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 23E · Line 102

Position of Panel 23E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
March 25, 1946
Home of record
Phillipsburg, New Jersey (Warren County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 21, 1967
Age
21
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

50 names on the Wall carry the date July 21, 1967; 22 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 23E, Line 102

From Phillipsburg

Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.