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CRISTOBAL FIGUEROA-PEREZ
Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
October 12, 1945 – February 2, 1968
Service recordCristobal Figueroa-Perez, of Catano, Puerto Rico, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 2, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 36E, Line 70 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36E · Line 70
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Unit (as recorded)
- F CO 2 BN 5 MAR 1 MARDIV
- Born
- October 12, 1945
- Home of record
- Catano, Puerto Rico (Catano County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 2, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
130 names on the Wall carry the date February 2, 1968; eight of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “F CO 2 BN 5 MAR 1 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Huế was under way. At Huế (31 January–2 March 1968), Marines, soldiers of the 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne divisions and South Vietnamese troops fought house to house for 26 days to retake the old imperial capital, the longest urban battle of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 36E, Line 70
- QUENTIN WAYNE BINDERSpecialist Four · February 2, 1968
- RICHARD EUGENE ENGLEPrivate First Class · February 2, 1968
- GARY RAY FITCHSergeant · February 2, 1968
- RUSSELL RAY FLESHERSecond Lieutenant · February 2, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JOHN EDWARD MALONEY JRSergeant · Panel 36E, Line 78
From Catano
- JOSE FERMI RIVERA-BARRETOPrivate First Class · April 29, 1966
- EFRAIN FIGUEROA-MELENDEZStaff Sergeant · March 5, 1969
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.