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DANIEL FLORES PEREZ JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 19, 1944 – March 16, 1967
Service recordDaniel Flores Perez JR, of Mathis, Texas, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 16, 1967, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 96 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16E · Line 96
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- July 19, 1944
- Home of record
- Mathis, Texas (San Patricio County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 16, 1967
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
53 names on the Wall carry the date March 16, 1967; eight of them were lost in Kon Tum 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 96
- JAMES GORDON PATTERSONSpecialist Five · March 16, 1967
- JAMES EARL PERRYPrivate First Class · March 16, 1967
- ALFRED PINOLance Corporal · March 16, 1967
- FRANK MICHEAL POKEY JRCorporal · March 16, 1967
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT STANLEY LISZCZSpecialist Four · Panel 16E, Line 93
From Mathis
- LUPE MONSEBAISLance Corporal · August 5, 1968
- ARTURO S ZAMORAPrivate First Class · August 18, 1968
- ERISTEO GUTIERREZ JRSergeant · October 10, 1968
- IRVING BURNS RAMSOWER IILieutenant Colonel · March 29, 1972
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.