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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 Alonzo Allen Teague.

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ALONZO ALLEN TEAGUE

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

April 25, 1946 – October 22, 1966

Service record

Alonzo Allen Teague, of Middlesboro, Kentucky, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on October 22, 1966, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 11E, Line 99 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 11E · Line 99

Position of Panel 11E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Assaultman (0351)
Born
April 25, 1946
Home of record
Middlesboro, Kentucky (Bell County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 22, 1966
Age
20
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

19 names on the Wall carry the date October 22, 1966; seven of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In October 1966, 516 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 11E, Line 99

From Middlesboro

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.