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DENNIS JOSEPH MEDEIROS
Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
October 29, 1946 – March 6, 1968
Service recordDennis Joseph Medeiros, of San Lorenzo, California, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 6, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 43E, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43E · Line 26
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
- Occupation
- Administrative Man (0141)
- Born
- October 29, 1946
- Home of record
- San Lorenzo, California (Alameda County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 6, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
140 names on the Wall carry the date March 6, 1968; 70 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 43E, Line 26
- DENNIS MICHAEL MEADPrivate First Class · March 6, 1968
- ROGER CARL MINCHPrivate First Class · March 6, 1968
- JOE ALEMAN MIRANDAPrivate · March 6, 1968
- GILBERT LOUIS MITCHELLLieutenant Commander · March 6, 1968
From San Lorenzo
- STEVE ALBERT SRSENPrivate First Class · January 27, 1967
- JAMES DENNIS PIPERPrivate First Class · April 11, 1967
- EDWARD KENNETH FERGUSONPrivate First Class · July 4, 1967
- PATRICK BERT HOPPECorporal · August 2, 1967
- LARRY DOUGLAS SHARPPrivate First Class · November 9, 1967
- WILLIS GLEN CARDINCorporal · February 6, 1968
- RAY WILLIAM BERG JRSpecialist Four · April 22, 1968
- DENNIS LEE TAYLORPrivate First Class · June 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.