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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 Cameron Joseph Devine.

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CAMERON JOSEPH DEVINE

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

April 19, 1948 – January 27, 1969

Service record

Cameron Joseph Devine, of Fairacres, New Mexico, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 27, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 34W, Line 92 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 34W · Line 92

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
April 19, 1948
Home of record
Fairacres, New Mexico (Dona Ana County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 27, 1969
Age
20
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Died of other causes

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33 names on the Wall carry the date January 27, 1969; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 34W, Line 92

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.