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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 Antonio Quichocho Sablan.

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ANTONIO QUICHOCHO SABLAN

Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army

October 22, 1929 – March 25, 1966

Service record

Antonio Quichocho Sablan, of Yigo, Guam, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 25, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 36. His name is inscribed on Panel 6E, Line 47 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 6E · Line 47

Position of Panel 6E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Sergeant First Class (SFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Cannon Crewmember (13B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
October 22, 1929
Home of record
Yigo, Guam (Guam County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 25, 1966
Age
36
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

20 names on the Wall carry the date March 25, 1966. In March 1966, 564 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 34 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 6E, Line 47

From Yigo

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.