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JOE CECILIO GARCIA
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
June 11, 1946 – April 30, 1967
Service recordJoe Cecilio Garcia, of Cedar Crest, New Mexico, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 30, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 121 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 121
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 11, 1946
- Home of record
- Cedar Crest, New Mexico (Bernalillo County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 30, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
71 names on the Wall carry the date April 30, 1967; 59 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 18E, Line 121
- WILLIAM DAIL EARLYCorporal · April 30, 1967
- GARY WAYNE FOXSpecialist Four · April 30, 1967
- THOMAS GEORGE GRAFFCorporal · April 30, 1967
- GEORGE MELVIN SEALLLance Corporal · April 30, 1967
- BENNIE H HOLBROOKPrivate First Class · July 22, 1972
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.