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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Benigno Zamudio JR.

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BENIGNO ZAMUDIO JR

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

November 26, 1950 – November 14, 1970

Service record

Benigno Zamudio JR, of Houston, Texas, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 14, 1970, in Phu Yen Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 6W, Line 61 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 6W · Line 61

Position of Panel 6W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Regular
Occupation
Duty Soldier (57A)
Unit (as recorded)
1 LOGISTIC CMD
Born
November 26, 1950
Home of record
Houston, Texas (Harris County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 14, 1970
Age
19
Province
Phu Yen
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

17 names on the Wall carry the date November 14, 1970; four of them were lost in Phu Yen Province. In November 1970, 347 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 6W, Line 61

Same unit, same day

From Houston

All 358 names from Houston →

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.