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JAVIER PUENTES FIGUEROA
Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
October 4, 1947 – January 28, 1968
Service recordJavier Puentes Figueroa, of Wilmington, California, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 28, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 54 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35E · Line 54
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
- Assaultman (0351)
- Born
- October 4, 1947
- Home of record
- Wilmington, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 28, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date January 28, 1968; 12 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In January 1968, 1,546 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 35E, Line 54
- GILBERT DIAZLance Corporal · January 28, 1968
- ANGEL ANTONIO GARCIAPrivate First Class · January 28, 1968
- EDWARD HADDOCKPrivate First Class · January 28, 1968
- THOMAS WILLIAM HOLLISLance Corporal · January 28, 1968
From Wilmington
- ANTONIO DUARTE PADILLACorporal · August 21, 1965
- JERRY BERNIS JOHNSTONPrivate First Class · December 5, 1965
- PENI UELICorporal · January 16, 1966
- RUDOLPH ALGAR NUNEZSergeant · June 13, 1966
- KENNETH ROY RORICKPrivate First Class · April 22, 1967
- BARNES WARLAND ROSE JRMajor · November 4, 1967
- DONALD MORGAN KROTZERPrivate · November 25, 1967
- TOMMY GENE STOVERSergeant · January 2, 1968
- JESUS GUTIERREZ ESCOBARLance Corporal · June 25, 1968
- MASON OPHELIA FOLMARSpecialist Six · November 14, 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.