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TIMOTHY RAY VANTONGEREN
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
February 23, 1949 – April 21, 1969
Service recordTimothy Ray Vantongeren, of Grandville, Michigan, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 21, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 26W, Line 23 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26W · Line 23
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- February 23, 1949
- Home of record
- Grandville, Michigan (Kent County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 21, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
35 names on the Wall carry the date April 21, 1969; ten of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 26W, Line 23
- GERALD WAYNE STEPHENSSpecialist Four · April 21, 1969
- EARL SCOTT WEMPLESergeant Major · April 21, 1969
- CHARLES JACKSON WILSONLance Corporal · April 21, 1969
- JACK LESLIE BAKERMajor · April 22, 1969
From Grandville
- JOHN JOSEPH VISSERSpecialist Four · September 19, 1968
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.