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EFREN CARMONA
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
June 18, 1944 – April 7, 1968
Service recordEfren Carmona, of El Monte, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 7, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 48E, Line 39 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 48E · Line 39
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
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- June 18, 1944
- Home of record
- El Monte, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 7, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
62 names on the Wall carry the date April 7, 1968; 32 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 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 189 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 48E, Line 39
- CLIFFORD BIASStaff Sergeant · April 7, 1968
- JAN EDWARD BOBOWSKI JRSergeant · April 7, 1968
- RICHARD STEVEN BROWNPrivate First Class · April 7, 1968
- MICHAEL JOSEPH CAINPrivate First Class · April 7, 1968
Same unit, same day
- GREGORY LAWREN LITTLEJOHNPrivate First Class · Panel 48E, Line 43
- GRAHAM LONNIE MILLSSpecialist Four · Panel 48E, Line 44
- WILLIAM J WHITEHEADCaptain · Panel 48E, Line 49
From El Monte
- DONALD EUGENE SMITHSergeant First Class · November 13, 1964
- BENJAMIN BELTRA CASTANEDAStaff Sergeant · January 23, 1965
- RIGOBERTO C CHACONSergeant · July 15, 1965
- JAMES RICHARD DYERConstructionman · August 6, 1965
- THOMAS HARRY MAYNARDPrivate First Class · November 6, 1965
- ARLOS CLAYTON WILDERPrivate First Class · May 17, 1966
- MICHAEL GEORGE CRYARPrivate · May 22, 1966
- CLIFTON E BENNETTSpecialist Four · August 8, 1966
- WILLIAM JOSEPH MCDOWELLSpecialist Four · March 30, 1967
- RICHARD JAMES STEWARTCorporal · April 1, 1967
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.