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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Julio Quinones JR.

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JULIO QUINONES JR

Private First Class · U.S. Army

December 27, 1950 – July 17, 1969

Service record

Julio Quinones JR, of Honolulu, Hawaii, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 17, 1969, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 20W · Line 11

Position of Panel 20W 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. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
December 27, 1950
Home of record
Honolulu, Hawaii (Honolulu County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 17, 1969
Age
18
Province
Tay Ninh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

18 names on the Wall carry the date July 17, 1969; two of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 52 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 20W, Line 11

Same unit, same day

From Honolulu

All 120 names from Honolulu →

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.