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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 Salvatore Guarino.

The Wall › Panel 11E › New Jersey › Salvatore Guarino

SALVATORE GUARINO

Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps

September 30, 1942 – September 23, 1966

Service record

Salvatore Guarino, of Newark, New Jersey, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 23, 1966, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 11E, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 11E · Line 2

Position of Panel 11E 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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Unit (as recorded)
F CO 2 BN 7 MAR 1 MARDIV
Born
September 30, 1942
Home of record
Newark, New Jersey (Essex County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 23, 1966
Age
23
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

21 names on the Wall carry the date September 23, 1966; two of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In September 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “F CO 2 BN 7 MAR 1 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 11E, Line 2

From Newark

All 110 names from Newark →

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.