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ERNEST MADRID
Sergeant · U.S. Army
May 31, 1947 – January 31, 1968
Service recordErnest Madrid, of Mcnary, Arizona, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 31, 1968, in Phu Yen Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 36E, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36E · Line 22
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- May 31, 1947
- Home of record
- Mcnary, Arizona (Apache County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 31, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Phu Yen
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
246 names on the Wall carry the date January 31, 1968; he was the only one lost in Phu Yen Province that day. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 34 of its members that month.
He died in Phu Yen Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 36E, Line 22
- STANLEY LEWISLieutenant · January 31, 1968
- TROY A LITTLEJOHNSergeant · January 31, 1968
- JACK RAY LOCKRIDGESergeant · January 31, 1968
- NORMAN LACY LONG JRSpecialist Four · January 31, 1968
Same unit, same day
- MARK MACDONALD SERREMFirst Lieutenant · Panel 36E, Line 35
From Mcnary
- JUAN NATIVIDAD SEDILLOCorporal · April 8, 1968
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.