MARCELINO NIEVES-COLON

Battery C 4/42 Artillery

4th Infantry Division

KIA 08/28/1968

Age: 21
Race: Caucasian
Sex: Male
Date of Birth Nov 21, 1946
From: COUNTRY CLUB, PR
Religion: PROTESTANT
Marital Status: Married

PFC - E3 - Army - Selective Service
4th Infantry Division
MOS: 13A10: Field Artillery Basic
Length of service 0 years
His tour began on Mar 17, 1968
Casualty was on Aug 28, 1968
In QUANG DUC, SOUTH VIETNAM
HOSTILE, GROUND CASUALTY
ARTILLERY, ROCKET, or MORTAR
Body was recovered

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Marcelino Nieves-Colon was killed in action while on Operation Mac Arthur/Binh Tay, at grid reference ZU232875,
at a firebase east of Duc Lap, when his position came under attack from mortar and small arms fire.

PFC Marcelino Nieves-Colon's decorations

Marcelino Nieves-Colon in Vietnam
Marcelino is in front on the left looking at the camera over his right shoulder

Photo from Wayne Killian, Battery C 4/42 Artillery, 1968

Marcelino Nieves-Colon is buried in Puerto Rico National Cemetery
at 168 National Cemetery Avenue, Bayamon, Puerto Rico
in Section G Site 613

Grave marker for Marcelino Nieves-Colon

Photo by KARELINE KINGS from the Find A Grave website

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