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ERNESTO PEREZ
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
April 6, 1948 – December 15, 1967
Service recordErnesto Perez, of Rake, Iowa, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 15, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 32E · Line 4
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- April 6, 1948
- Home of record
- Rake, Iowa (Winnebago County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 15, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date December 15, 1967; six of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 32E, Line 4
- JOE PENA JRSergeant · December 15, 1967
- WILLIAM EDWIN PIERSONLance Corporal · December 15, 1967
- RICHARD MICHAEL PROSCIAPrivate First Class · December 15, 1967
- JAMES LOUIS REICHELTPrivate First Class · December 15, 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.