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RAFAEL DELEON JR
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
August 20, 1949 – April 15, 1969
Service recordRafael Deleon JR, of Donna, Texas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 15, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 86 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27W · Line 86
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
- August 20, 1949
- Home of record
- Donna, Texas (Hidalgo County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 15, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date April 15, 1969; seven of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 27W, Line 86
- JAMES WILBERT DERBYSHIREPrivate First Class · April 15, 1969
- LYLE EUGENE DROWNSpecialist Five · April 15, 1969
- DOYLE DANIEL DUNBARSpecialist Five · April 15, 1969
- BRUCE GARY FRIELCorporal · April 15, 1969
From Donna
- JUAN BENITEZPrivate First Class · October 17, 1965
- GUADALUPE MASIAS ALVAREZLance Corporal · September 9, 1967
- RAUL GARCIA JRCorporal · January 2, 1970
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.