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HENRY R GARCIA
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
March 25, 1941 – December 10, 1967
Service recordHenry R Garcia, of Rockport, Texas, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 10, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 74 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31E · Line 74
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- March 25, 1941
- Home of record
- Rockport, Texas (Aransas County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 10, 1967
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
46 names on the Wall carry the date December 10, 1967; two of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 31E, Line 74
- DANIEL ELI GARDNERCorporal · December 10, 1967
- MANUEL MARTINEZ GONZALESCorporal · December 10, 1967
- JERRY GRANTPrivate First Class · December 10, 1967
- ROBERT HENRY GROSSLieutenant Colonel · December 10, 1967
From Rockport
- C GREGORY NUCKLESFirst Lieutenant · November 4, 1967
- ALFREDO MEDINA JRPrivate First Class · February 1, 1968
- JOHN VINCENT AKINPrivate First Class · June 15, 1968
- MACK HOUSTON WILHELMPetty Officer Third Class · February 19, 1969
- GUADALUPE GALINDO JRPrivate First Class · August 24, 1969
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.