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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 Carl Edwin Cunningham.

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CARL EDWIN CUNNINGHAM

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

December 9, 1944 – July 16, 1969

Service record

Carl Edwin Cunningham, of Neosho Rapids, Kansas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 16, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 20W · Line 5

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Mortarman (0341)
Born
December 9, 1944
Home of record
Neosho Rapids, Kansas (Lyon County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 16, 1969
Age
24
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

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25 names on the Wall carry the date July 16, 1969; five of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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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.