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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 Clarence Tolentino.

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CLARENCE TOLENTINO

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps

October 2, 1932 – June 17, 1968

Service record

Clarence Tolentino, of San Luis Rey, California, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 17, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 35. His name is inscribed on Panel 56W, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 56W · Line 15

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantry Unit Leader (0369)
Born
October 2, 1932
Home of record
San Luis Rey, California (San Diego County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 17, 1968
Age
35
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Explosive Device

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28 names on the Wall carry the date June 17, 1968; six of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In June 1968, 1,257 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.