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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 Juan Francisco Aranda.

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JUAN FRANCISCO ARANDA

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

June 21, 1950 – October 30, 1970

Service record

Juan Francisco Aranda, of Uvalde, Texas, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on October 30, 1970, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 6W, Line 28 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 6W · Line 28

Position of Panel 6W 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
Assaultman (0351)
Born
June 21, 1950
Home of record
Uvalde, Texas (Uvalde County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 30, 1970
Age
20
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Drowning

Context · from the records

What was happening

14 names on the Wall carry the date October 30, 1970; three of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In October 1970, 318 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 6W, Line 28

From Uvalde

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.