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ALFONSO ORTIZ-LOPEZ
Platoon Sergeant · U.S. Army
August 25, 1930 – April 6, 1967
Service recordAlfonso Ortiz-Lopez, of Bayamon, Puerto Rico, served as a Platoon Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 6, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 36. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 113 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 113
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Platoon Sergeant (PSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- August 25, 1930
- Home of record
- Bayamon, Puerto Rico (Bayamon County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 6, 1967
- Age
- 36
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date April 6, 1967; two of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 57 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 17E, Line 113
- RICHARD ERIC NEWTONCaptain · April 6, 1967
- HENRY EDWARD PATENAUDESergeant First Class · April 6, 1967
- EDWARD JOSEPH PAULSpecialist Four · April 6, 1967
- TED BARNETT PETERSONLance Corporal · April 6, 1967
Same unit, same day
- RICHARD MONROE DYKESSpecialist Five · Panel 17E, Line 110
- JOHNNY ELMER LEWISPrivate First Class · Panel 17E, Line 112
- VINCENTE MEDINA-TORRESMaster Sergeant · Panel 17E, Line 112
- HENRY EDWARD PATENAUDESergeant First Class · Panel 17E, Line 113
- GEORGE M HARRINGTONSpecialist Five · Panel 17E, Line 114
- CONRAD EARL POOLESpecialist Five · Panel 17E, Line 114
From Bayamon
- RAMON KUILAN-OLIVERASSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
- WENCESLEO KUILANStaff Sergeant · January 25, 1966
- GAMALIEL MARCANO-DIAZPrivate First Class · November 21, 1966
- ENRIQUE BERMUDEZ-PACHECOPrivate First Class · August 9, 1967
- JESUS D RIVERA-MELENDEZStaff Sergeant · November 21, 1967
- JUAN ORTIZ-RIVERAPrivate First Class · December 28, 1967
- NERY JACINTO BRENESSergeant · January 23, 1968
- JUAN BAUT MORALES-MERCADOPrivate First Class · January 31, 1968
- ISMAEL MENENDEZ-OCASIOPrivate First Class · February 26, 1968
- GUILLERMO A RUIZ-BERNARDSpecialist Four · April 11, 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.