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EXTRUMBERTO SOLIS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 10, 1946 – March 27, 1968
Service recordExtrumberto Solis, of Elsa, Texas, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 27, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 46E, Line 50 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46E · Line 50
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- January 10, 1946
- Home of record
- Elsa, Texas (Hidalgo County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 27, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date March 27, 1968; four of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 101 of its members that month.
He died in Định Tường 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.
Also on Panel 46E, Line 50
- CARL ALVIN SHUTT JRSpecialist Four · March 27, 1968
- JOSEPH EUGENE SINTONISpecialist Four · March 27, 1968
- IRWIN ROSS SOBELPrivate First Class · March 27, 1968
- MACWAYNE SPEAKSCaptain · March 27, 1968
- FREDRIC BRUCE DAVISSpecialist Four · January 14, 1973
Same unit, same day
- WAYNE WILLIAM PEARCESergeant First Class · Panel 46E, Line 49
- MICHAEL CANDIDO RUSSOPrivate First Class · Panel 46E, Line 49
- JOSEPH EUGENE SINTONISpecialist Four · Panel 46E, Line 50
- JAMES DAVIS WHITESergeant · Panel 46E, Line 51
From Elsa
- RICHARD GUINN CROSSLANDSpecialist Four · February 7, 1966
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.