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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 Carlos Dominguez.

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CARLOS DOMINGUEZ

Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

November 7, 1948 – May 13, 1968

Service record

Carlos Dominguez, of El Paso, Texas, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 13, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 59E, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 59E · Line 21

Position of Panel 59E 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
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Regular
Born
November 7, 1948
Home of record
El Paso, Texas (El Paso County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 13, 1968
Age
19
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

101 names on the Wall carry the date May 13, 1968; four of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 59E, Line 21

From El Paso

All 126 names from El Paso →

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.