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JOHN ONOFRE OQUENDO JR
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
December 7, 1943 – September 16, 1966
Service recordJohn Onofre Oquendo JR, of Campbell, Ohio, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on September 16, 1966, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 10E, Line 102 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 10E · Line 102
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Born
- December 7, 1943
- Home of record
- Campbell, Ohio (Mahoning County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 16, 1966
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
25 names on the Wall carry the date September 16, 1966; 17 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In September 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 10E, Line 102
- LARRY JAMES BAKERPetty Officer Third Class · September 16, 1966
- ROBERT WILCOX MOODYPrivate First Class · September 16, 1966
- DAVID LEE OCONNORCorporal · September 16, 1966
- DOUGLAS FRANK QUINNPrivate First Class · September 16, 1966
From Campbell
- RAYMOND GEORGE POTTERCorporal · September 10, 1967
- RONALD JOSEPH PUSKARCIKPrivate First Class · July 18, 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.