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BENITO MORALES
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 22, 1947 – September 7, 1967
Service recordBenito Morales, of New Braunfels, Texas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 7, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 26E, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26E · Line 29
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 First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Unit (as recorded)
- K CO 3 BN 26 MAR 3 MARDIV
- Born
- January 22, 1947
- Home of record
- New Braunfels, Texas (Comal County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 7, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
62 names on the Wall carry the date September 7, 1967; 42 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “K CO 3 BN 26 MAR 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Con Thien was under way. Through September and October 1967, North Vietnamese artillery across the Demilitarized Zone pounded the Marine outpost at Con Thien and the bases along the DMZ in Quảng Trị Province. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 26E, Line 29
- DUANE LEE MORNINGSTARPrivate First Class · September 7, 1967
- ERIC P MULLERSergeant · September 7, 1967
- JEFFREY PHILIP MYERSLance Corporal · September 7, 1967
- STEPHAN JOSEPH NELSONLance Corporal · September 7, 1967
Same unit, same day
- SAMUEL LEE PARKERLance Corporal · Panel 26E, Line 30
From New Braunfels
- THOMAS EARL EDDYCaptain · June 26, 1966
- GEORGE ARRIAGA GARCIASpecialist Four · June 16, 1967
- VICTORIANO PEREZ SOSA JRPrivate First Class · June 17, 1967
- EARNEST WESLEY CARAWAYSergeant · February 10, 1968
- CHARLES D CROCKETT JRCorporal · June 28, 1968
- EZEQUIEL TORRES JRPrivate First Class · October 28, 1969
- JESSE ALLAN WISDOMCaptain · February 6, 1970
- ARNO JOSEPH VOIGTSergeant First Class · June 4, 1970
- JOSE LUNA GONZALES JRPrivate First Class · September 4, 1970
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.