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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 Theodore R Vivilacqua.

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THEODORE R VIVILACQUA

Second Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps

August 22, 1946 – May 13, 1969

Service record

Theodore R Vivilacqua, of Long Beach, California, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 13, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 25W, Line 113 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 25W · Line 113

Position of Panel 25W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Second Lieutenant (2NDLT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Basic Infantry Officer (0301)
Born
August 22, 1946
Home of record
Long Beach, California (Los Angeles County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 13, 1969
Age
22
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

112 names on the Wall carry the date May 13, 1969; eight of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 25W, Line 113

From Long Beach

All 101 names from Long Beach →

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.