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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 Alberto Torres Anzaldua.

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ALBERTO TORRES ANZALDUA

Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps

April 10, 1946 – August 10, 1969

Service record

Alberto Torres Anzaldua, of Santa Rosa, Texas, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 10, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 121 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 20W · Line 121

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
April 10, 1946
Home of record
Santa Rosa, Texas (Cameron County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 10, 1969
Age
23
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

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41 names on the Wall carry the date August 10, 1969; 21 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 20W, Line 121

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.