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CONFESOR RIVERA-MARTES
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
November 24, 1928 – April 1, 1967
Service recordConfesor Rivera-Martes, of Utuado, Puerto Rico, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 1, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 38. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 87 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 87
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- November 24, 1928
- Home of record
- Utuado, Puerto Rico (Utuado County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 1, 1967
- Age
- 38
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date April 1, 1967; 21 of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 61 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 17E, Line 87
- ROLAND HAYES HOWELLPrivate First Class · April 1, 1967
- JAMES EDWARD PRESSLEYSergeant · April 1, 1967
- RAYMOND FRANCIS QUINNSergeant · April 1, 1967
- JOHN OWEN RHODESLance Corporal · April 1, 1967
From Utuado
- MANUEL ANTON PEREZ-RIVERAPrivate First Class · June 21, 1966
- ADRIEN MANU JORDAN-MOLEROSpecialist Four · June 28, 1966
- JUAN FRANCISCO VAZQUEZSergeant First Class · February 4, 1968
- WILFREDO CINTRON-MENDEZSpecialist Four · November 1, 1968
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.