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CANDIDO CABRERA-RODRIGUEZ
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
October 20, 1940 – April 3, 1968
Service recordCandido Cabrera-Rodriguez, of Bo Toita, Puerto Rico, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 3, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 47E, Line 46 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47E · Line 46
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Armor Crewman (11E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- October 20, 1940
- Home of record
- Bo Toita, Puerto Rico
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 3, 1968
- Age
- 27
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
65 names on the Wall carry the date April 3, 1968; 15 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 96 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 47E, Line 46
- HARRY LAMAR BLALOCKPrivate First Class · April 3, 1968
- JOHN CLAIR BONNEYCorporal · April 3, 1968
- WAYNE BOYDPrivate First Class · April 3, 1968
- JOHN JAMES BRADYSecond Lieutenant · April 3, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JOHN ENOCH BLACKPrivate First Class · Panel 47E, Line 45
- JOHN WILLIAM FOXCorporal · Panel 47E, Line 49
- CLIFTON MALONEStaff Sergeant · Panel 47E, Line 52
- ROGER ALLAN QUINNMajor · Panel 47E, Line 53
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.