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ANTONIO VEGA
Private First Class · U.S. Army
December 29, 1945 – March 13, 1967
Service recordAntonio Vega, of Gary, Indiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 13, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 74 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16E · Line 74
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
- December 29, 1945
- Home of record
- Gary, Indiana (Lake County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 13, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
17 names on the Wall carry the date March 13, 1967; two of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 78 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 16E, Line 74
- THOMAS R BARRYSecond Lieutenant · March 13, 1967
- JAMES ARNOLD SEARIGHTPrivate First Class · March 13, 1967
- MARCO ANTONIO SERRANO JRPrivate · March 13, 1967
- VIRGIL BYRON TERWILLIGERLance Corporal · March 13, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JERRY LEE BORGENSPrivate First Class · Panel 16E, Line 72
From Gary
- JOHN ROBERT ACKERMANPrivate First Class · November 16, 1965
- TOM WILLIE BROWNSergeant · December 4, 1965
- JACK ELSWORTH LOCKEPrivate First Class · January 27, 1966
- ROBERT LOPEZPrivate First Class · March 1, 1966
- JAMES LEE EMMARTPrivate First Class · June 20, 1966
- RICHARD WAYNE MCGEECorporal · July 1, 1966
- VICTOR MORALESPrivate First Class · August 1, 1966
- JOHN PETER SKORO JRFirst Lieutenant · September 13, 1966
- JOHN GREEN DICKERSON IIIPrivate · October 5, 1966
- ANDREW JAMES ROBERTSONPrivate First Class · November 2, 1966
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.