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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 Dennis Glenn Iniguez.

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DENNIS GLENN INIGUEZ

Private First Class · U.S. Army

June 25, 1949 – November 6, 1968

Service record

Dennis Glenn Iniguez, of San Diego, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 6, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 39W, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 39W · Line 27

Position of Panel 39W 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
199 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
June 25, 1949
Home of record
San Diego, California (San Diego County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 6, 1968
Age
19
Province
Hua Nghia
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

31 names on the Wall carry the date November 6, 1968; he was the only one lost in Hua Nghia Province that day. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 39W, Line 27

From San Diego

All 181 names from San Diego →

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.