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VICTOR H MONTOYA JR
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 13, 1948 – May 12, 1967
Service recordVictor H Montoya JR, of Los Cordovas, New Mexico, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 12, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 19E, Line 98 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 19E · Line 98
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
- January 13, 1948
- Home of record
- Los Cordovas, New Mexico (Taos County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 12, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
56 names on the Wall carry the date May 12, 1967; seven of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 19E, Line 98
- ERNEST GARY MADDENCorporal · May 12, 1967
- EDDIE MANISAirman Third Class · May 12, 1967
- JAY ANDERSON MITCHELLCaptain · May 12, 1967
- WILLIAM PAUL ROGERS JRSpecialist Five · May 12, 1967
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.