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FREDES VINDO MENDEZ-ORTIZ
Private First Class · U.S. Army
February 10, 1949 – May 23, 1969
Service recordFredes Vindo Mendez-Ortiz, of Villalba, Puerto Rico, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 23, 1969, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 91 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24W · Line 91
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)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- February 10, 1949
- Home of record
- Villalba, Puerto Rico (Villalba County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 23, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
56 names on the Wall carry the date May 23, 1969; three of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 76 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 24W, Line 91
- JOHN MICHAEL ODONNELLSergeant · May 23, 1969
- PHILIP WILLIAM STROUTSpecialist Four · May 23, 1969
- JAMES EDWARD WORKMANPrivate First Class · May 23, 1969
- JAMES BOSTON JRPrivate First Class · May 24, 1969
From Villalba
- ARCADIO TORRESFirst Sergeant · June 4, 1970
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.