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GUADALUPE ESPARZA MONTOYA
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 8, 1948 – May 20, 1969
Service recordGuadalupe Esparza Montoya, of Argo, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 20, 1969, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 63 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24W · Line 63
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)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- July 8, 1948
- Home of record
- Argo, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 20, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date May 20, 1969; three of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 82 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 24W, Line 63
- DAVID HUNTER WILKERSONPrivate First Class · May 20, 1969
- HARRY DANIEL ASHCRAFTPrivate First Class · May 21, 1969
- JIMMIE VAN BOCKPrivate First Class · May 21, 1969
- L C CARTERSergeant · May 21, 1969
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT WALTER BUCKLEYSpecialist Four · Panel 24W, Line 58
- JAMES BENJAMIN SHELBYSpecialist Four · Panel 24W, Line 61
- RAYMOND MACK SHINELDECKERSpecialist Four · Panel 24W, Line 61
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.