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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 Pedro Jaime Caudillo.

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PEDRO JAIME CAUDILLO

Chief Warrant Officer 2 · U.S. Marine Corps

July 26, 1928 – May 19, 1968

Service record

Pedro Jaime Caudillo, of Laredo, Texas, served as a Chief Warrant Officer 2 in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 19, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 39. His name is inscribed on Panel 63E, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 63E · Line 6

Position of Panel 63E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Chief Warrant Officer 2 (CWO2)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Uls Central Office Operator/Maintainer (2515)
Unit (as recorded)
3 ITT BN 3 MARDIV
Born
July 26, 1928
Home of record
Laredo, Texas (Webb County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 19, 1968
Age
39
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

89 names on the Wall carry the date May 19, 1968; 27 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 63E, Line 6

From Laredo

All 20 names from Laredo →

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.