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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Harry Steven Oneto JR.

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HARRY STEVEN ONETO JR

Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

December 19, 1947 – September 8, 1968

Service record

Harry Steven Oneto JR, of Sunnyvale, California, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 8, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 44W, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 44W · Line 4

Position of Panel 44W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Radio Telegraph Operator (2533)
Born
December 19, 1947
Home of record
Sunnyvale, California (Santa Clara County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 8, 1968
Age
20
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Drowning

Context · from the records

What was happening

35 names on the Wall carry the date September 8, 1968; six of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 44W, Line 4

From Sunnyvale

All 25 names from Sunnyvale →

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.