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EDILBERTO DULA MACAGBA
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
December 26, 1946 – March 13, 1968
Service recordEdilberto Dula Macagba, of Albany, California, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on March 13, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 44E, Line 38 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44E · Line 38
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- B CO 1 BN 26 MAR 3 MARDIV
- Born
- December 26, 1946
- Home of record
- Albany, California (Alameda County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 13, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
57 names on the Wall carry the date March 13, 1968; five of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “B CO 1 BN 26 MAR 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.
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 44E, Line 38
- DREK ALLEN LANDESSpecialist Four · March 13, 1968
- RAMON LOPEZSergeant First Class · March 13, 1968
- LARRY JAY MOOREPrivate First Class · March 13, 1968
- MICHAEL KEITH MOOREStaff Sergeant · March 13, 1968
From Albany
- RAYMOND VERNON NORAPrivate · May 18, 1968
- RONALD HOWARD BINGMANStaff Sergeant · September 4, 1968
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.