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GONZALO H VILLASENOR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 20, 1949 – April 11, 1969
Service recordGonzalo H Villasenor, of Ft Worth, Texas, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 11, 1969, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 57 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27W · Line 57
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- August 20, 1949
- Home of record
- Ft Worth, Texas (Tarrant County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 11, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date April 11, 1969; two of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 76 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 27W, Line 57
- MARTIN LECHUGACorporal · April 11, 1969
- STEPHEN MIX LEWISSpecialist Four · April 11, 1969
- MICHAEL ERNEST MATTASpecialist Four · April 11, 1969
- DALE LAVERNE MILBRADTFirst Lieutenant · April 11, 1969
Same unit, same day
- MARTIN LECHUGACorporal · Panel 27W, Line 57
From Ft Worth
- GEORGE MARKOSCaptain · February 7, 1965
- CHARLES M DANSBYCaptain · April 24, 1965
- JACK WILTON WEATHERBYCaptain · July 29, 1965
- PAUL WAYNE MANSIRPrivate First Class · September 11, 1965
- JAMES EDWARD THOMASPrivate First Class · October 3, 1965
- DONALD JAY TANNERLance Corporal · December 4, 1965
- DONALD REY HAWLEYCaptain · December 17, 1965
- OTHA THEANDER THOMPSONCorporal · August 24, 1965
- HARVEY WAYNE JONESPrivate First Class · March 4, 1966
- LEWIS DOUGLAS BELLMajor · March 5, 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.