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RAMON PENA CANCEL
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
November 28, 1947 – June 18, 1968
Service recordRamon Pena Cancel, of Gary, Indiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 18, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 56W, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 56W · 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
- November 28, 1947
- Home of record
- Gary, Indiana (Lake County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 18, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date June 18, 1968; 14 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 56W, Line 18
- FERGUS JOSEPH CARROLLCorporal · June 18, 1968
- ALVIN PETER CHRISTENSENPrivate First Class · June 18, 1968
- SIDNEY MCLEAN CONOLLY JRSpecialist Four · June 18, 1968
- PETER FRANCIS FONDASpecialist Four · June 18, 1968
From Gary
- JOHN ROBERT ACKERMANPrivate First Class · November 16, 1965
- TOM WILLIE BROWNSergeant · December 4, 1965
- JACK ELSWORTH LOCKEPrivate First Class · January 27, 1966
- ROBERT LOPEZPrivate First Class · March 1, 1966
- JAMES LEE EMMARTPrivate First Class · June 20, 1966
- RICHARD WAYNE MCGEECorporal · July 1, 1966
- VICTOR MORALESPrivate First Class · August 1, 1966
- JOHN PETER SKORO JRFirst Lieutenant · September 13, 1966
- JOHN GREEN DICKERSON IIIPrivate · October 5, 1966
- ANDREW JAMES ROBERTSONPrivate First Class · November 2, 1966
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.