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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 Julian Alonzo.

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JULIAN ALONZO

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

July 9, 1940 – May 15, 1967

Service record

Julian Alonzo, of San Antonio, Texas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 15, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 19E, Line 124 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 19E · Line 124

Position of Panel 19E 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
July 9, 1940
Home of record
San Antonio, Texas (Bexar County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 15, 1967
Age
26
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

41 names on the Wall carry the date May 15, 1967; ten of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 19E, Line 124

From San Antonio

All 287 names from San Antonio →

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.