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JESUS QUESADA
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
March 11, 1946 – January 28, 1969
Service recordJesus Quesada, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 28, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 33W, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 33W · Line 9
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
- Mortarman (0341)
- Born
- March 11, 1946
- Home of record
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Milwaukee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 28, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
34 names on the Wall carry the date January 28, 1969; four of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while Operation Dewey Canyon was under way. In Operation Dewey Canyon (22 January–18 March 1969) the 9th Marines struck North Vietnamese base areas in the Đa Krông and A Shau valleys, the last major Marine offensive of the war. 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 33W, Line 9
- ROBERT EARL POORESpecialist Four · January 28, 1969
- JOHN LOUIS REAGLECorporal · January 28, 1969
- DANIEL PATRICK ROSELance Corporal · January 28, 1969
- DARRON FREDERICK ZICCHINOSpecialist Four · January 28, 1969
From Milwaukee
- TOM JOSEPH CRESSLieutenant · January 6, 1961
- ROBERT BURGERTSergeant · February 13, 1963
- PETER MATTHEW FEIERABENDPrivate First Class · February 16, 1964
- THADDEUS ZAJACSpecialist Four · September 27, 1965
- JAMES CALVIN WARDPrivate First Class · October 11, 1965
- TIMOTHY HOLTON JOHNSONPrivate First Class · November 6, 1965
- RICHARD WILLIAM SCHWENDLERCorporal · November 16, 1965
- MICHAEL ALFRED GRUBERPrivate First Class · December 5, 1965
- RICHARD JOSEPH BRUNKEPrivate First Class · December 14, 1965
- MICHAEL PETER MORANPrivate First Class · January 9, 1966
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.