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FERNANDO MARCELO VALDEZ
Private First Class · U.S. Army
March 8, 1949 – July 26, 1968
Service recordFernando Marcelo Valdez, of Pepeekeo, Hawaii, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 26, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 50W, Line 16 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 50W · Line 16
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- March 8, 1949
- Home of record
- Pepeekeo, Hawaii (Hawaii County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 26, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date July 26, 1968; five of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 80 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 50W, Line 16
- JACK STEPHEN SMITHLance Corporal · July 26, 1968
- PAUL DONALD SPILLANESergeant First Class · July 26, 1968
- WILLIAM JAMES TELLISSergeant First Class · July 26, 1968
- JOHN WAYNE ACOSTASpecialist Four · July 27, 1968
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS RAY COOK JRPrivate First Class · Panel 50W, Line 12
- STEVEN ARTHUR FRINKPrivate First Class · Panel 50W, Line 13
- CHARLES THOMAS MCNUTTPrivate First Class · Panel 50W, Line 15
- WILLIAM JAMES TELLISSergeant First Class · Panel 50W, Line 16
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.