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ARTURO SALAZAR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 21, 1948 – June 13, 1969
Service recordArturo Salazar, of Laredo, Texas, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 13, 1969, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 22W, Line 43 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 22W · Line 43
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- January 21, 1948
- Home of record
- Laredo, Texas (Webb County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 13, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Kien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
41 names on the Wall carry the date June 13, 1969; six of them were lost in Kien Hoa Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 70 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 22W, Line 43
- CHRISTY ALBERT PEEBLERSergeant · June 13, 1969
- ROY MARTIN PINGSpecialist Five · June 13, 1969
- ROBERT VINCENT REKERLance Corporal · June 13, 1969
- DAVID FRANK SCHLUTERMANPrivate First Class · June 13, 1969
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS MILTON AARON JRSpecialist Four · Panel 22W, Line 37
- JEFF LEE FRANKLIN JRPrivate First Class · Panel 22W, Line 40
- MICHAEL KEITH LEWISStaff Sergeant · Panel 22W, Line 41
- JAMES CLIFFORD LUCEROSpecialist Four · Panel 22W, Line 42
- THOMAS EARL OWENSPrivate First Class · Panel 22W, Line 42
- KENNETH LEE CONNERPrivate First Class · Panel 22W, Line 45
From Laredo
- HERIBERTO ARNALDO GARCIACaptain · November 8, 1964
- RODOLFO GUADALUPE GONZALEZSpecialist Four · November 11, 1966
- ALEJANDRO GARCIA JRSpecialist Four · December 29, 1966
- JAVIER ARTURO E SANCHEZStaff Sergeant · May 3, 1967
- RAUL VILLASpecialist Four · May 9, 1967
- JORGE SOSAPrivate First Class · June 3, 1967
- JUAN JOSE GONZALEZPrivate First Class · June 15, 1967
- GUADALUPE MARTINEZSergeant First Class · November 17, 1967
- IGNACIO TORRES JRSergeant · November 18, 1967
- HOMERO PEREZStaff Sergeant · December 1, 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.