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EUGENIO ERASMO FERNANDEZ JR
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
June 13, 1946 – May 9, 1968
Service recordEugenio Erasmo Fernandez JR, of Romulus, Michigan, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 9, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 57E, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 57E · Line 17
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
- June 13, 1946
- Home of record
- Romulus, Michigan (Wayne County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 9, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
127 names on the Wall carry the date May 9, 1968; 43 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 57E, Line 17
- SAM COLE JRPrivate First Class · May 9, 1968
- CARLOS WAYNE CORNETTSpecialist Four · May 9, 1968
- FREDDIE JAMES COX JRPrivate First Class · May 9, 1968
- LESTER WAYNE COXPrivate First Class · May 9, 1968
From Romulus
- ELMER WAYNE SCARBOROUGHPrivate First Class · July 4, 1966
- MARION FRANKLIN FERGUSONPrivate First Class · February 15, 1968
- KENNETH PAUL EHNISSergeant · February 19, 1968
- LAWRENCE POETLance Corporal · February 23, 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.