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JOE HERNANDEZ JR
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
July 26, 1946 – January 2, 1967
Service recordJoe Hernandez JR, of Pueblo, Colorado, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 2, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 13E, Line 109 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 13E · Line 109
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
- July 26, 1946
- Home of record
- Pueblo, Colorado (Pueblo County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 2, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date January 2, 1967; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 13E, Line 109
- EDWARD EUGENE GREENEStaff Sergeant · January 2, 1967
- FRED D HARTPrivate First Class · January 2, 1967
- JOE D JOHNSON JRPrivate First Class · January 2, 1967
- ELMER L JUCKETT IIIPrivate First Class · January 2, 1967
From Pueblo
- KENNETH DALE JOHNSTONPrivate First Class · August 27, 1965
- LARRY ROBERT TAYLORFirst Lieutenant · September 9, 1965
- JAMES CARL SPINUZZICorporal · January 24, 1966
- DAVID BENEDICTO GARCIASergeant · February 7, 1966
- ALEXANDER MONTOYASergeant · February 7, 1966
- JOHN WILLIAM ROBBINSPrivate First Class · February 20, 1966
- MIGUEL ERNEST NARANJO JRPrivate First Class · February 28, 1966
- MANUEL HERRERAPrivate First Class · March 21, 1966
- ERNEST LOUIS DURANStaff Sergeant · June 11, 1966
- PETE MICHAEL MARTINEZPrivate First Class · July 18, 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.