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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Margarito Garza.

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MARGARITO GARZA

Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

December 22, 1943 – July 2, 1967

Service record

Margarito Garza, of Bishop, Texas, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 2, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 22E, Line 102 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 22E · Line 102

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Machinegunner (0331)
Born
December 22, 1943
Home of record
Bishop, Texas (Nueces County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 2, 1967
Age
23
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

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127 names on the Wall carry the date July 2, 1967; 93 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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From Bishop

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.