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DAVID ROBERT VELASQUEZ
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
March 5, 1946 – February 6, 1966
Service recordDavid Robert Velasquez, of Gardner, Kansas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 6, 1966, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 5E, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 5E · Line 8
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
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- March 5, 1946
- Home of record
- Gardner, Kansas (Johnson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 6, 1966
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
16 names on the Wall carry the date February 6, 1966; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In February 1966, 513 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 5E, Line 8
- JAMES BRUCE OKANELance Corporal · August 24, 1965
- ROY EDWARD THOMASSergeant · February 6, 1966
- ALEX E VACZIFirst Sergeant · February 6, 1966
- JAMES BAKER WOODS IIICaptain · February 6, 1966
- BRUCE GEORGE BARTHLance Corporal · February 7, 1966
From Gardner
- MICHAEL JEROME FONSECAPrivate First Class · October 27, 1967
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.