GREEN BERETS Marcantel, Walter Lee

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Marcantel​

• FORENAME

Walter Lee​

• UNIT

10 SF Group (HQ and HQ Company)​

• RANK

Captain​

• NUMBER

• DATE OF DEATH

18th February 1970​

• AGE

24​

• GRAVESITE

Fairhaven Memorial Park, Santa Ana, Orange County, California​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

from Orange County, California​

born 27.5.1945 Brown County, Texas​

son of Orise and Edith Marion (nee Purcella) Marcantel​

graduated Orange High School​

5 SF Group (MACV-SOG-CCS) (Project Omega) (RT Hatchet) (First Lieutenant) 1969​

WIA 24.4.1969 Cambodia​

10 SF Group 1969-70​

died in training (parachute) accident Fort Devens, Massachusetts​

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[delta42actual]

anyone know how i can find info on his death ive look in everything i can think other than the story told to his family. Former paratrooper just alot of things ive never heard supposedly happened

 

[Craig Robertson]

anyone know how i can find info on his death ive look in everything i can think other than the story told to his family. Former paratrooper just alot of things ive never heard supposedly happened

Added Obituary here, has a few more details : https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/w-marcantel.40071/