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EUGENIO MOLINA-RODRIGUEZ
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 1, 1950 – December 5, 1969
Service recordEugenio Molina-Rodriguez, of Arecibo, Puerto Rico, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 5, 1969, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 15W, Line 28 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15W · Line 28
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. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Pioneer (12A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- C CO 299 ENG BN 937 ENG GRP 18 ENG BDE
- Born
- January 1, 1950
- Home of record
- Arecibo, Puerto Rico (Arecibo County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 5, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
25 names on the Wall carry the date December 5, 1969; four of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In December 1969, 509 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “C CO 299 ENG BN 937 ENG GRP 18 ENG BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 15W, Line 28
- STEVEN DOUGLAS LEVESQUELance Corporal · December 5, 1969
- JOHN EUGENE MARTINCorporal · December 5, 1969
- MARK RONALD MUEHECorporal · December 5, 1969
- DAVID NIEVESPrivate First Class · December 5, 1969
Same unit, same day
- DAVID NIEVESPrivate First Class · Panel 15W, Line 28
From Arecibo
- ELMO ROSARIO-SALABERRIOSSpecialist Four · September 18, 1966
- 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
- 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.