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PEDRO MARROQUIN JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 25, 1945 – March 19, 1967
Service recordPedro Marroquin JR, of Chicago, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 19, 1967, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 112 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16E · Line 112
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- January 25, 1945
- Home of record
- Chicago, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 19, 1967
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Kien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date March 19, 1967; two of them were lost in Kien Hoa Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 82 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 16E, Line 112
- DONALD EUGENE JONESCorporal · March 19, 1967
- BARNEY JOE KELLYSpecialist Four · March 19, 1967
- ROBERT LEWIS LINN JRPrivate First Class · March 19, 1967
- DEAN CHARLES LOEGERINGPrivate First Class · March 19, 1967
Same unit, same day
- FRANK VALDEZPrivate First Class · Panel 16E, Line 116
From Chicago
- MELVIN LESTER WATERSPrivate · February 10, 1965
- WILLIAM RALPH FUHRMANPetty Officer Third Class · April 23, 1965
- RAYMOND LEON HORNCorporal · May 1, 1965
- ARTHUR C JEPSON JRCaptain · May 16, 1965
- DONALD CLAY DEDMONStaff Sergeant · June 10, 1965
- ROGER PELIKANLance Corporal · July 17, 1965
- HARRY COHENTechnical Sergeant · July 19, 1969
- CURTIS LOCKHARTPrivate First Class · July 30, 1965
- EDWARD KOPECPrivate First Class · August 18, 1965
- JAMES LEO WHITELance Corporal · August 19, 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.