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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Eddie Cesario Lopez.

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EDDIE CESARIO LOPEZ

Private · U.S. Army

November 6, 1945 – November 24, 1966

Service record

Eddie Cesario Lopez, of Clifton, Arizona, served as a Private in the U.S. Army. He died on November 24, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 12E, Line 115 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 12E · Line 115

Position of Panel 12E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private (PVT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Supply Handler (56A)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
November 6, 1945
Home of record
Clifton, Arizona (Greenlee County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 24, 1966
Age
21
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

17 names on the Wall carry the date November 24, 1966. In November 1966, 641 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 86 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 12E, Line 115

Same unit, same day

From Clifton

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.