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JULIUS CARTWRIGHT FOSTER
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
September 28, 1938 – February 22, 1968
Service recordJulius Cartwright Foster, of Welch, West Virginia, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 22, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 40E, Line 62 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40E · Line 62
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
- Rifleman (0311)
- Unit (as recorded)
- E CO 2 BN 26 MAR 3 MARDIV
- Born
- September 28, 1938
- Home of record
- Welch, West Virginia (Mcdowell County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 22, 1968
- Age
- 29
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
76 names on the Wall carry the date February 22, 1968; 16 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “E CO 2 BN 26 MAR 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 40E, Line 62
- GREGORY WILLIAM FISCHERPrivate First Class · February 22, 1968
- ARTHUR DONALD FREDERICKPrivate First Class · February 22, 1968
- EDWARD W GEROSpecialist Five · February 22, 1968
- DANNY LYNN GILSTRAPSecond Lieutenant · February 22, 1968
From Welch
- ROBERT LEE SMITHSpecialist Four · January 29, 1966
- CHARLES WALTER DEW BALCOESpecialist Four · September 29, 1967
- DAVID LEE SACKETTFirst Lieutenant · October 24, 1969
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.