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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 John Anthony Berrio.

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JOHN ANTHONY BERRIO

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

November 18, 1948 – June 24, 1969

Service record

John Anthony Berrio, of Brant Rock, Massachusetts, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 24, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 21W · Line 5

Position of Panel 21W 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
Lance Corporal (LCPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
November 18, 1948
Home of record
Brant Rock, Massachusetts (Plymouth County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 24, 1969
Age
20
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Infectious Disease

Context · from the records

What was happening

31 names on the Wall carry the date June 24, 1969; seven of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 21W, Line 5

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.