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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 Bernardino Santiago-Vazquez.

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BERNARDINO SANTIAGO-VAZQUEZ

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

May 20, 1947 – February 12, 1967

Service record

Bernardino Santiago-Vazquez, of New York, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 12, 1967, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 15E, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 15E · Line 22

Position of Panel 15E 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 First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Unit (as recorded)
B CO 3 ANTITANK BN 3 MARDIV
Born
May 20, 1947
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 12, 1967
Age
19
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

29 names on the Wall carry the date February 12, 1967; seven of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In February 1967, 767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 15E, Line 22

From New York

All 1370 names from New York →

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.