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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 Rodney Alan Jannetta.

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RODNEY ALAN JANNETTA

Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

September 28, 1949 – June 24, 1969

Service record

Rodney Alan Jannetta, of Duluth, Minnesota, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 24, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 21W · Line 8

Position of Panel 21W 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
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Logistics/Embarkation Specialist (0431)
Unit (as recorded)
3 BN 9 MAR
Born
September 28, 1949
Home of record
Duluth, Minnesota (St Louis County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 24, 1969
Age
19
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

31 names on the Wall carry the date June 24, 1969; seven of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 21W, Line 8

From Duluth

All 40 names from Duluth →

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.