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ORLANDO ALBERTO SALAS
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
April 15, 1949 – December 13, 1968
Service recordOrlando Alberto Salas, of New York, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 13, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36W · 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
- Machinegunner (0331)
- Born
- April 15, 1949
- Home of record
- New York, New York (Kings County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 13, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date December 13, 1968; he was the only one lost in Quảng Nam Province that day. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 36W, Line 18
- DONALD ACE PETTITTPrivate · December 13, 1968
- DAVID WAYNE PIERCEPrivate First Class · December 13, 1968
- SALVATORE ALFRED ROWEPrivate First Class · December 13, 1968
- JOHN JOSEPH RUSSEKSergeant · December 13, 1968
From New York
- WALTER R MCCARTHY JRCaptain · June 16, 1962
- JOHN HOWARD MCCLEANCaptain · August 16, 1963
- DONALD ALLAN MOLLICONEFirst Lieutenant · December 20, 1963
- VINCENT JOSEPH HICKMANCaptain · January 14, 1964
- MARTIN STOCKFEDERPrivate First Class · July 15, 1964
- ROBERT GEORGE ARMSTRONGFirst Lieutenant · October 24, 1964
- DOMINICK SANSONESergeant First Class · December 10, 1964
- DONALD GILBERT COOKColonel · December 31, 1964
- TERENCE MEREDITH MURPHYLieutenant (junior grade) · April 9, 1965
- ROBERT CARL WISTRANDColonel · May 9, 1965
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.