The Wall › Panel 33E › Texas › Frank Olivares Taboada
FRANK OLIVARES TABOADA
Private · U.S. Army
March 5, 1948 – January 4, 1968
Service recordFrank Olivares Taboada, of San Antonio, Texas, served as a Private in the U.S. Army. He died on January 4, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 33E, Line 42 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 33E · Line 42
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.
Remember
Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.
Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private (PVT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Clerk-Typist (71B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- March 5, 1948
- Home of record
- San Antonio, Texas (Bexar County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 4, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
51 names on the Wall carry the date January 4, 1968; nine of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 24 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 33E, Line 42
- RUBEN BELL JRPrivate First Class · January 4, 1968
- ROBERT WILLIAM SORENSENPrivate First Class · January 4, 1968
- EUGENE FREDERICK SWEET JRPrivate First Class · January 4, 1968
- KENNETH JAMES TAKEMOTOSpecialist Four · January 4, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DAVID RICHARD SIMONSSergeant · Panel 33E, Line 41
- PAUL HERMAN VILLAROSASergeant First Class · Panel 33E, Line 43
From San Antonio
- JOHN DUARTEPrivate First Class · January 20, 1963
- ROBERT LOUIS RAGSDALESecond Lieutenant · June 26, 1964
- DELBERT LEE VAUGHN JRStaff Sergeant · October 4, 1964
- ARTHUR DALE BAKERMajor · April 7, 1965
- JESSE RODRIQUEZ ACOSTAStaff Sergeant · May 16, 1965
- RUDOLPH VILLALP HERNANDEZPrivate · July 7, 1965
- VIRGIL GALAN CRUZLance Corporal · September 28, 1965
- ROBERT WAYNE WRANOSKYCaptain · December 7, 1965
- BILLIE JACK CARTWRIGHTCaptain · December 12, 1965
- JOSE ANTONIO GUTIERREZSpecialist Four · January 28, 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.