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ELMO ROSARIO-SALABERRIOS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 19, 1944 – September 18, 1966
Service recordElmo Rosario-Salaberrios, of Arecibo, Puerto Rico, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on September 18, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 10E, Line 112 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 10E · Line 112
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- March 19, 1944
- Home of record
- Arecibo, Puerto Rico (Arecibo County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 18, 1966
- Age
- 22
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date September 18, 1966. In September 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 51 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 10E, Line 112
- JAMES TERENCE BAYNELance Corporal · September 18, 1966
- DAVID ROWLAND BEATTIEPrivate First Class · September 18, 1966
- JOHN ALLEN BRYANLance Corporal · September 18, 1966
- WILLIAM RUSSELL HINERMANPrivate First Class · September 18, 1966
From Arecibo
- LUIS ANTONIO PEREZ-CRUZPrivate First Class · November 4, 1966
- JAIME ALBERT RIVERA-LOPEZSpecialist Four · May 12, 1968
- OCTAVIO MOLINA-ROSARIOPrivate First Class · May 13, 1968
- ANGEL MANUEL CRUZ-VAZQUEZSpecialist Four · July 9, 1968
- JOSE D GUTIERREZ-VELAZQUEZSpecialist Five · September 13, 1968
- JUAN MANUEL VELEZ-VILLAMILSpecialist Four · February 21, 1969
- JOSE F ROSADO-BORGESPrivate First Class · August 24, 1969
- EUGENIO MOLINA-RODRIGUEZPrivate First Class · December 5, 1969
- DAVID CONCEPCION-NIEVESSpecialist Four · June 10, 1970
- ANTONIO ESTEVES-NEGRONSpecialist Five · June 29, 1971
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.