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SALVADOR LOUIS MONTE JR
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
March 13, 1947 – December 1, 1967
Service recordSalvador Louis Monte JR, of Harahan, Louisiana, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 1, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31E · Line 21
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
- Lance Corporal (LCPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Assaultman (0351)
- Born
- March 13, 1947
- Home of record
- Harahan, Louisiana
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 1, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
12 names on the Wall carry the date December 1, 1967; six of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 31E, Line 21
- PEDRO RAMIREZ AGUILARPrivate First Class · December 1, 1967
- ROGER JOSEPH HOOVERPrivate · December 1, 1967
- HUMBERTO LARACorporal · December 1, 1967
- GEORGE EDWARD NAYLORLance Corporal · December 1, 1967
From Harahan
- KENNETH JOHN AINSWORTHSpecialist Five · February 2, 1968
- MASON ERWIN RAGLANDPrivate First Class · April 25, 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.