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LUIS MANUEL MARQUEZ-LOPEZ
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
July 20, 1927 – December 13, 1967
Service recordLuis Manuel Marquez-Lopez, of Guayama, Puerto Rico, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 13, 1967, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 40. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 88 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31E · Line 88
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- July 20, 1927
- Home of record
- Guayama, Puerto Rico (Guayama County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 13, 1967
- Age
- 40
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date December 13, 1967; three of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 31E, Line 88
- DOUGLAS RAY JOHNSONPrivate First Class · December 13, 1967
- VERNE LYLE JOHNSON JRLance Corporal · December 13, 1967
- GENE FRANCIS LEESpecialist Four · December 13, 1967
- MICHAEL RAYE MCCORDSpecialist Four · December 13, 1967
Same unit, same day
- CLIFFORD RUSSELL CARTERStaff Sergeant · Panel 31E, Line 86
- JOHN W FITZGERALD JRSergeant First Class · Panel 31E, Line 87
From Guayama
- ISMAEL LEBRON-LOPEZSpecialist Four · May 18, 1966
- ANIBAL DEJESUS-SANCHEZPrivate First Class · March 14, 1967
- JULIO MASSO-PEREZPrivate First Class · April 17, 1967
- JOSE RAMON DIANA-DIAZPrivate First Class · May 14, 1968
- RAFAEL CRUZ-CRUZCorporal · February 11, 1969
- JOSE R TORRES-RODRIGUEZPrivate First Class · May 1, 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.