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ESTEBAN VALERIANO ROCHEZ
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
December 25, 1941 – December 27, 1970
Service recordEsteban Valeriano Rochez, of New York, New York, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on December 27, 1970, in An Xugen Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 5W, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 5W · Line 11
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Engineman (EN)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- December 25, 1941
- Home of record
- New York, New York (Kings County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 27, 1970
- Age
- 29
- Province
- An Xugen
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
12 names on the Wall carry the date December 27, 1970; two of them were lost in An Xugen Province. In December 1970, 271 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 5W, Line 11
- MARTIN JOSEPH HANLONPrivate · December 27, 1970
- RAYMOND CLYDE HOLTSergeant · December 27, 1970
- ROY DOUGLAS JORDANSpecialist Four · December 27, 1970
- JACK WILLIAM MCCANNSergeant · December 27, 1970
From New York
- WALTER R MCCARTHY JRCaptain · June 16, 1962
- JOHN HOWARD MCCLEANCaptain · August 16, 1963
- DONALD ALLAN MOLLICONEFirst Lieutenant · December 20, 1963
- VINCENT JOSEPH HICKMANCaptain · January 14, 1964
- MARTIN STOCKFEDERPrivate First Class · July 15, 1964
- ROBERT GEORGE ARMSTRONGFirst Lieutenant · October 24, 1964
- DOMINICK SANSONESergeant First Class · December 10, 1964
- DONALD GILBERT COOKColonel · December 31, 1964
- TERENCE MEREDITH MURPHYLieutenant (junior grade) · April 9, 1965
- ROBERT CARL WISTRANDColonel · May 9, 1965
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.