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ANTONIO RAMOS SANDOVAL
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
March 4, 1956 – May 15, 1975
Service recordAntonio Ramos Sandoval, of San Antonio, Texas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 15, 1975, in Cambodia, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 1W, Line 129 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 1W · Line 129
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Unit (as recorded)
- G CO 2 BN 9 MAR 3 MARDIV
- Born
- March 4, 1956
- Home of record
- San Antonio, Texas (Bexar County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 15, 1975
- Age
- 19
- Country
- Cambodia
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
- Incident
- Uss Mayaguez Capture
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date May 15, 1975. In May 1975, 42 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “G CO 2 BN 9 MAR 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.
He died in Cambodia while the Mayaguez incident was under way. After Khmer Rouge forces seized the U.S. merchant ship Mayaguez in May 1975, Marines assaulted Koh Tang island; their names are the last on the Wall.
Also on Panel 1W, Line 129
- ROBERT W ROSSSergeant · May 13, 1975
- ROBERT P WELDONSergeant · May 13, 1975
- DANIEL ANDREW BENEDETTPrivate First Class · May 15, 1975
- LYNN BLESSINGPrivate First Class · May 15, 1975
Same unit, same day
- DANIEL ANDREW BENEDETTPrivate First Class · Panel 1W, Line 129
- LYNN BLESSINGPrivate First Class · Panel 1W, Line 129
- GREGORY SCOTT COPENHAVERLance Corporal · Panel 1W, Line 130
- KELTON RENA TURNERPrivate First Class · Panel 1W, Line 130
- JAMES JOSEPH JACQUESPrivate First Class · Panel 1W, Line 131
- ASHTON NATHANIEL LONEYLance Corporal · Panel 1W, Line 131
- JAMES RICKEY MAXWELLPrivate First Class · Panel 1W, Line 131
- WALTER BOYDPrivate First Class · Panel 1W, Line 132
- RICHARD WILLIAM RIVENBURGHPrivate First Class · Panel 1W, Line 132
From San Antonio
- JOHN DUARTEPrivate First Class · January 20, 1963
- ROBERT LOUIS RAGSDALESecond Lieutenant · June 26, 1964
- DELBERT LEE VAUGHN JRStaff Sergeant · October 4, 1964
- ARTHUR DALE BAKERMajor · April 7, 1965
- JESSE RODRIQUEZ ACOSTAStaff Sergeant · May 16, 1965
- RUDOLPH VILLALP HERNANDEZPrivate · July 7, 1965
- VIRGIL GALAN CRUZLance Corporal · September 28, 1965
- ROBERT WAYNE WRANOSKYCaptain · December 7, 1965
- BILLIE JACK CARTWRIGHTCaptain · December 12, 1965
- JOSE ANTONIO GUTIERREZSpecialist Four · January 28, 1966
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.