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LOUIS FRANCIS CERRANO JR
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
May 18, 1948 – April 22, 1967
Service recordLouis Francis Cerrano JR, of New York, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 22, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 67 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 67
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- May 18, 1948
- Home of record
- New York, New York (Kings County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 22, 1967
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date April 22, 1967; eight of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 18E, Line 67
- JAMES RICHARD ADAMSSpecialist Four · April 22, 1967
- EDWARD JAMES BELLSergeant First Class · April 22, 1967
- KIT BLACKWELDERPrivate First Class · April 22, 1967
- ARNOLD LEE BROCKPrivate First Class · April 22, 1967
From New York
- WALTER R MCCARTHY JRCaptain · June 16, 1962
- JOHN HOWARD MCCLEANCaptain · August 16, 1963
- DONALD ALLAN MOLLICONEFirst Lieutenant · December 20, 1963
- VINCENT JOSEPH HICKMANCaptain · January 14, 1964
- MARTIN STOCKFEDERPrivate First Class · July 15, 1964
- ROBERT GEORGE ARMSTRONGFirst Lieutenant · October 24, 1964
- DOMINICK SANSONESergeant First Class · December 10, 1964
- DONALD GILBERT COOKColonel · December 31, 1964
- TERENCE MEREDITH MURPHYLieutenant (junior grade) · April 9, 1965
- ROBERT CARL WISTRANDColonel · May 9, 1965
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.