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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 Joseph Edward Jacquez.

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JOSEPH EDWARD JACQUEZ

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

November 29, 1949 – May 11, 1969

Service record

Joseph Edward Jacquez, of Santaquin, Utah, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 11, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 25W, Line 49 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 25W · Line 49

Position of Panel 25W 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
Basic Logistics Marine (0400)
Born
November 29, 1949
Home of record
Santaquin, Utah (Utah County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 11, 1969
Age
19
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

65 names on the Wall carry the date May 11, 1969; three of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 25W, Line 49

From Santaquin

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.