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MIGUEL ERNEST NARANJO JR
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
June 29, 1947 – February 28, 1966
Service recordMiguel Ernest Naranjo JR, of Pueblo, Colorado, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 28, 1966, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 5E, Line 91 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 5E · Line 91
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 29, 1947
- Home of record
- Pueblo, Colorado (Pueblo County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 28, 1966
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
41 names on the Wall carry the date February 28, 1966; 16 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In February 1966, 513 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 5E, Line 91
- JOHN HENRY ROBERTSPrivate First Class · February 28, 1966
- LESTER A ROGERSFirst Lieutenant · February 28, 1966
- CHARLES WAYNE SIMSCorporal · February 28, 1966
- CLIFTON LEE TARTPrivate First Class · February 28, 1966
From Pueblo
- KENNETH DALE JOHNSTONPrivate First Class · August 27, 1965
- LARRY ROBERT TAYLORFirst Lieutenant · September 9, 1965
- JAMES CARL SPINUZZICorporal · January 24, 1966
- DAVID BENEDICTO GARCIASergeant · February 7, 1966
- ALEXANDER MONTOYASergeant · February 7, 1966
- JOHN WILLIAM ROBBINSPrivate First Class · February 20, 1966
- MANUEL HERRERAPrivate First Class · March 21, 1966
- ERNEST LOUIS DURANStaff Sergeant · June 11, 1966
- PETE MICHAEL MARTINEZPrivate First Class · July 18, 1966
- MATTHEW JOHN KRISTPetty Officer Third Class · August 21, 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.