The Wall › Panel 4W › Guam › Enrique Rosario Santos
ENRIQUE ROSARIO SANTOS
Sergeant · U.S. Army
December 20, 1947 – March 16, 1971
Service recordEnrique Rosario Santos, of Sinajana, Guam, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 16, 1971, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 54 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4W · Line 54
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.
Remember
Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.
Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- December 20, 1947
- Home of record
- Sinajana, Guam (Guam County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 16, 1971
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Died of other causes
Context · from the records
What was happening
Ten names on the Wall carry the date March 16, 1971; he was the only one lost in Quảng Tín Province that day. In March 1971, 429 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 41 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 4W, Line 54
- RICHARD LEE BAUMANChief Warrant Officer 3 · March 17, 1971
- LEWIS ANTHONY DAVISSeaman Apprentice · March 17, 1971
- MICHAEL JOSEPH S DEPAULChief Warrant Officer 2 · March 17, 1971
- CRAIG MITCHELL DIXStaff Sergeant · March 17, 1971
From Sinajana
- VINCENT FEJA GUERREROCorporal · March 8, 1969
- VINCENT PINAULA MOREHAMCorporal · July 30, 1970
- RUFO SANTOS SANNICOLASLance Corporal · September 2, 1970
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.