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MICHAEL JEROME FONSECA
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
June 8, 1947 – October 27, 1967
Service recordMichael Jerome Fonseca, of Gardner, Kansas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on October 27, 1967, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 28E, Line 81 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28E · Line 81
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
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- June 8, 1947
- Home of record
- Gardner, Kansas (Johnson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 27, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
60 names on the Wall carry the date October 27, 1967; 13 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 28E, Line 81
- JOHN ROBERT DAWSONSecond Lieutenant · October 27, 1967
- GARY FRANK DISSINGERCorporal · October 27, 1967
- LINDEN BROOK DIXONCorporal · October 27, 1967
- EVARISTO MARTINEZ IIISpecialist Four · October 27, 1967
From Gardner
- DAVID ROBERT VELASQUEZPrivate First Class · February 6, 1966
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.