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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Guadalupe Flores.

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GUADALUPE FLORES

Corporal · U.S. Army

January 19, 1948 – April 22, 1969

Service record

Guadalupe Flores, of West Bexar, Texas, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on April 22, 1969, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 26W, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 26W · Line 26

Position of Panel 26W 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
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
January 19, 1948
Home of record
West Bexar, Texas (Bexar County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 22, 1969
Age
21
Province
Dinh Tuong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

29 names on the Wall carry the date April 22, 1969; three of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 57 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 26W, Line 26

Same unit, same day

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.