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HECTOR RIVERA-COLON
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
August 20, 1937 – May 27, 1968
Service recordHector Rivera-Colon, of Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 27, 1968, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 30. His name is inscribed on Panel 65W, Line 14 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 65W · Line 14
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- August 20, 1937
- Home of record
- Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico (Juana Diaz County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 27, 1968
- Age
- 30
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
78 names on the Wall carry the date May 27, 1968; seven of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 24 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 65W, Line 14
- EARL DONALD REEDAirman First Class · May 27, 1968
- MERRILL DALE REICH JRFirst Lieutenant · May 27, 1968
- KENNETH RAY RUCKERSergeant · May 27, 1968
- SCOTT BRUCE SALTERPrivate First Class · May 27, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ANTHONY GEORGE PRIORCaptain · Panel 65W, Line 13
- MERRILL DALE REICH JRFirst Lieutenant · Panel 65W, Line 14
From Juana Diaz
- NOE MIRANDA-PEREZPrivate First Class · January 29, 1966
- LIONEL MALDONADO-TORRESCorporal · September 17, 1968
- LUIS ALFONSO VELEZ-RIVERASergeant · October 4, 1968
- GOLGUIS COLON-RODRIGUEZPrivate First Class · January 1, 1970
- ADOLFO GONZALEZ-LOPEZSergeant · February 25, 1971
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.