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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Eliseo A Andrade JR.

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ELISEO A ANDRADE JR

First Lieutenant · U.S. Army

April 6, 1945 – September 24, 1967

Service record

Eliseo A Andrade JR, of Villa Piedras, Puerto Rico, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on September 24, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 27E · Line 4

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
First Lieutenant (1LT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
Unit (as recorded)
MACV ADVISORS
Born
April 6, 1945
Home of record
Villa Piedras, Puerto Rico

Casualty

Date of death
September 24, 1967
Age
22
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

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20 names on the Wall carry the date September 24, 1967. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.

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Also on Panel 27E, Line 4

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.