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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Hector Lopez Ruiz.

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HECTOR LOPEZ RUIZ

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

October 15, 1946 – November 24, 1967

Service record

Hector Lopez Ruiz, of Othello, Washington, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 24, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 81 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 30E · Line 81

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Born
October 15, 1946
Home of record
Othello, Washington (Adams County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 24, 1967
Age
21
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Burns/Smoke Inhalation

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What was happening

39 names on the Wall carry the date November 24, 1967. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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From Othello

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.