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ANGEL LUIS SANCHEZ
Private First Class · U.S. Army
November 30, 1945 – May 22, 1968
Service recordAngel Luis Sanchez, of Lorain, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 22, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 66E, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 66E · Line 2
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- November 30, 1945
- Home of record
- Lorain, Ohio (Lorain County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 22, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date May 22, 1968; 11 of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 236 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 66E, Line 2
- CLAIR F RITCHEY JRCorporal · May 22, 1968
- LARRY JUNIOR SAMPLESCorporal · May 22, 1968
- SAMMY LEE SCOTTPrivate First Class · May 22, 1968
- KENNETH CHARLES SHEMORYLance Corporal · May 22, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JOE RAY COURTNEY JRCorporal · Panel 65E, Line 6
- PAUL ALLEN PROEHLSergeant · Panel 65E, Line 8
- GEORGE GUERRA JRPrivate First Class · Panel 65E, Line 9
- JOE RAYMOND HINESFirst Lieutenant · Panel 65E, Line 11
- GALE WILLIAM DIXONSergeant · Panel 65E, Line 13
- DAVID WESLEY MOSELEYPrivate First Class · Panel 65E, Line 13
- LARRY JUNIOR SAMPLESCorporal · Panel 66E, Line 2
From Lorain
- RAYMOND ELLSWORTH RUPCICFirst Lieutenant · April 6, 1965
- DONALD RAYMOND BONKOCaptain · November 26, 1965
- RONALD RALICHPrivate First Class · May 29, 1966
- THOMAS REGINALD COWLEYStaff Sergeant · August 28, 1966
- RAYMOND HODOROWSKILance Corporal · March 6, 1967
- GEORGE WILLIAM MCDANIELPrivate First Class · April 29, 1967
- JOSE HECTOR ORTIZPrivate First Class · June 28, 1967
- LARRY EDWARD FIELDSLance Corporal · July 14, 1967
- BRUCE BERNARD LIVINGSTONLance Corporal · September 2, 1967
- ROBERT JOSEPH NAGYPrivate First Class · October 17, 1967
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.