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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 Grijalba Humberto Ron.

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GRIJALBA HUMBERTO RON

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

June 8, 1941 – October 8, 1965

Service record

Grijalba Humberto Ron, of Astoria, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 8, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 113 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 2E · Line 113

Position of Panel 2E 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
June 8, 1941
Home of record
Astoria, New York (Queens County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 8, 1965
Age
24
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

12 names on the Wall carry the date October 8, 1965. In October 1965, 236 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 26 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 2E, Line 113

Same unit, same day

From Astoria

All 21 names from Astoria →

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.