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ALBERT DELGADO AUSTIN JR
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
May 11, 1943 – April 27, 1969
Service recordAlbert Delgado Austin JR, of Mesa, Arizona, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on April 27, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 26W, Line 59 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26W · Line 59
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Observation/Scout Helicopter Repairer (67V)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- May 11, 1943
- Home of record
- Mesa, Arizona (Maricopa County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 27, 1969
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
45 names on the Wall carry the date April 27, 1969; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 83 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 26W, Line 59
- JAMES DAMION VALOVSpecialist Five · April 26, 1969
- ALFONSO AUGUSTUS WEBBLance Corporal · April 26, 1969
- DARYLE WAYNE BATTSergeant First Class · April 27, 1969
- ARNOLD REX BRAYSpecialist Four · April 27, 1969
Same unit, same day
- DARYLE WAYNE BATTSergeant First Class · Panel 26W, Line 59
From Mesa
- ROBERT ORRIE LONGPrivate First Class · August 18, 1965
- GUY RICHARD REEDPrivate First Class · May 10, 1966
- BOBBY JOE BAREFIELDPrivate First Class · May 26, 1966
- JOHN ALLAN RICHPrivate · August 25, 1966
- JERRY TIMOTHY SUTERPetty Officer Third Class · September 15, 1966
- JOHN LOUIS CZECHOWSKI JRPrivate First Class · April 21, 1968
- DALLAS TYLER ADAIR JRCorporal · April 26, 1968
- FRANK G HERRERASergeant · May 18, 1968
- ROJELIO OLIVAN MUNOZ IIPrivate First Class · August 16, 1968
- MERRILL THOMAS GERAGHTYFirst Lieutenant · September 6, 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.