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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Gregorio Pedro Castillo.

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GREGORIO PEDRO CASTILLO

Private First Class · U.S. Army

May 9, 1943 – September 21, 1969

Service record

Gregorio Pedro Castillo, of Glendale, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 21, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 18W, Line 119 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 18W · Line 119

Position of Panel 18W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
11 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
May 9, 1943
Home of record
Glendale, California (Los Angeles County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 21, 1969
Age
26
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

29 names on the Wall carry the date September 21, 1969; 12 of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In September 1969, 664 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 31 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 18W, Line 119

Same unit, same day

From Glendale

All 20 names from Glendale →

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.