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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 Arnold Aguilar.

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ARNOLD AGUILAR

Private · U.S. Marine Corps

July 10, 1945 – April 21, 1968

Service record

Arnold Aguilar, of Austin, Texas, served as a Private in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 21, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 51E, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 51E · Line 15

Position of Panel 51E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Private (PVT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
July 10, 1945
Home of record
Austin, Texas (Multiple County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 21, 1968
Age
22
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

60 names on the Wall carry the date April 21, 1968; four of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 51E, Line 15

From Austin

All 75 names from Austin →

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.