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CHRISTOPHER LEIGH SENESE
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
July 24, 1948 – April 13, 1969
Service recordChristopher Leigh Senese, of Rochester, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 13, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 78 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27W · Line 78
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
- Mortarman (0341)
- Born
- July 24, 1948
- Home of record
- Rochester, New York (Monroe County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 13, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
47 names on the Wall carry the date April 13, 1969; 12 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 27W, Line 78
- JOHN HALE JRPrivate First Class · April 13, 1969
- JOHN JOSEPH SCHMELZLESpecialist Four · April 13, 1969
- WILFRED F SCHMIDT JRWarrant Officer 1 · April 13, 1969
- NELSON OMAR VANHOUTENPrivate First Class · April 13, 1969
From Rochester
- EUGENE RICHARDSONAirman First Class · October 24, 1964
- JOHN E EHRMENTRAUT JRPrivate First Class · April 24, 1965
- ALBERT S KNIGHT IIILance Corporal · June 22, 1965
- JOHN BERNARD TETTEPrivate First Class · August 18, 1965
- GEORGE STEPHEN BALAZYPrivate First Class · September 12, 1965
- JOSEPH CHRISTIANOColonel · December 24, 1965
- NOEL MICHAEL BARTOLFPrivate First Class · January 2, 1966
- NICHOLES SOCHACKIPrivate First Class · February 25, 1966
- RICHARD FLOYD SMITHPrivate First Class · March 16, 1966
- ROBERT JULIUS VANREYPENPrivate First Class · March 27, 1966
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.