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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 Sergio Edith Albert.

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SERGIO EDITH ALBERT

Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps

April 11, 1942 – June 12, 1967

Service record

Sergio Edith Albert, of New York, New York, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 12, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 93 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 21E · Line 93

Position of Panel 21E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Rifleman (0311)
Born
April 11, 1942
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 12, 1967
Age
25
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

13 names on the Wall carry the date June 12, 1967; two of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 21E, Line 93

From New York

All 1370 names from New York →

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.