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MARGARITO FERNANDEZ JR
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
August 24, 1941 – March 18, 1969
Service recordMargarito Fernandez JR, of Pearland, Texas, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 18, 1969, in Chau Doc Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 29W, Line 68 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29W · Line 68
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
- August 24, 1941
- Home of record
- Pearland, Texas (Brazoria County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 18, 1969
- Age
- 27
- Province
- Chau Doc
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
47 names on the Wall carry the date March 18, 1969; he was the only one lost in Chau Doc Province that day. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 29W, Line 68
- RICHARD BERT BRUCESpecialist Four · March 18, 1969
- DALE LEON EISAMANSpecialist Four · March 18, 1969
- GEORGE THOMAS FARAWELLPrivate First Class · March 18, 1969
- WILLIAM EDWARD HOPKINSPrivate First Class · March 18, 1969
Same unit, same day
- BARRY DANIEL MURPHYSpecialist Five · Panel 29W, Line 69
From Pearland
- JOE PENA JRSergeant First Class · September 20, 1970
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.