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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Marco Antonio Serrano JR.

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MARCO ANTONIO SERRANO JR

Private · U.S. Army

September 20, 1945 – March 13, 1967

Service record

Marco Antonio Serrano JR, of New York, New York, served as a Private in the U.S. Army. He died on March 13, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 74 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 16E · Line 74

Position of Panel 16E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private (PVT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Food Service Helper (94A)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
September 20, 1945
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 13, 1967
Age
21
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

17 names on the Wall carry the date March 13, 1967. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 82 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 16E, Line 74

Same unit, same day

From New York

All 1370 names from New York →

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.