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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Albert Hilerio JR.

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ALBERT HILERIO JR

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

August 1, 1950 – May 28, 1969

Service record

Albert Hilerio JR, of Miami, Florida, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 28, 1969, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 23W, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 23W · Line 9

Position of Panel 23W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
August 1, 1950
Home of record
Miami, Florida (Dade County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 28, 1969
Age
18
Province
Kien Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

40 names on the Wall carry the date May 28, 1969; two of them were lost in Kien Hoa Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 82 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 23W, Line 9

Same unit, same day

From Miami

All 179 names from Miami →

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.