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PETER ALAN GRUCA
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 31, 1950 – November 22, 1969
Service recordPeter Alan Gruca, of Port Reading, New Jersey, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on November 22, 1969, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 16W, Line 109 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16W · Line 109
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
- Assaultman (0351)
- Born
- January 31, 1950
- Home of record
- Port Reading, New Jersey (Middlesex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 22, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
17 names on the Wall carry the date November 22, 1969; four of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In November 1969, 660 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 16W, Line 109
- MICHAEL LLOYD M DEBOLTPrivate First Class · November 22, 1969
- RICHARD CARL DEUTERLieutenant · November 22, 1969
- KENNETH GENE EWINGSpecialist Four · November 22, 1969
- JOHNNY VENT JOHNSONSergeant · November 22, 1969
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.