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FELIX F F LEYVA-PARRA-FRIAS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 16, 1947 – April 8, 1967
Service recordFelix F F Leyva-Parra-Frias, of Norwalk, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 8, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 125 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 125
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- May 16, 1947
- Home of record
- Norwalk, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 8, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
56 names on the Wall carry the date April 8, 1967; six of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 25 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 17E, Line 125
- ROBERT RICHARD HUSTERSpecialist Four · April 8, 1967
- HENRY JOSEPH MARKOWSKI JRPrivate First Class · April 8, 1967
- DON LESLIE MICHAELSpecialist Four · April 8, 1967
- EDDIE JAMES MICKENSSpecialist Four · April 8, 1967
Same unit, same day
- TERRENCE GLADE DIXONCorporal · Panel 17E, Line 121
- DON LESLIE MICHAELSpecialist Four · Panel 17E, Line 125
- ALBERT MARSHALL GUYERFirst Lieutenant · Panel 17E, Line 126
- HIGINIO OVALLE OVIEDOPrivate First Class · Panel 17E, Line 127
- ROBERT THOMPSON JRPrivate First Class · Panel 18E, Line 1
From Norwalk
- JOE MANUEL SALINASPrivate First Class · July 20, 1965
- JUAN JOSE CASTROSergeant · March 23, 1966
- FRANK ARREY JRSergeant · September 21, 1966
- RAYMOND JEFFERSON ROSS JRPrivate First Class · October 17, 1966
- MICHAEL CLIFTON MILLERPrivate First Class · October 25, 1966
- ELBERT FRANK BLACKBURNPrivate First Class · March 16, 1967
- RICHARD BERNARD VAGNONEPrivate First Class · May 4, 1967
- IGNACIO PORTUGAL JRPrivate First Class · June 19, 1967
- JERRY PAIZSpecialist Four · December 7, 1967
- MITCHELL FRANK SILVERSPrivate First Class · January 25, 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.