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MARIO COSTA
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
February 9, 1950 – July 12, 1968
Service recordMario Costa, of Lafayette, New Jersey, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 12, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 52W, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 52W · Line 18
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
- Administrative Man (0141)
- Born
- February 9, 1950
- Home of record
- Lafayette, New Jersey (Sussex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 12, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
20 names on the Wall carry the date July 12, 1968; four of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 52W, Line 18
- CHARLES RONALD CLARKLance Corporal · July 12, 1968
- OTIS COOPER JRLance Corporal · July 12, 1968
- ROY KENNETH CORLEWWarrant Officer 1 · July 12, 1968
- JIMMY DON FULFORDLance Corporal · July 12, 1968
From Lafayette
- FRED ARTHUR BELCHERPrivate First Class · September 13, 1968
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.