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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Heriberto Segov Hernandez.

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HERIBERTO SEGOV HERNANDEZ

Fireman · U.S. Coast Guard

July 23, 1948 – December 5, 1968

Service record

Heriberto Segov Hernandez, of San Antonio, Texas, served as a Fireman in the U.S. Coast Guard. He died on December 5, 1968, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 46 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 37W · Line 46

Position of Panel 37W 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. Coast Guard
Rank
Fireman (FN)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Fireman (FN)
Unit (as recorded)
USNAVFORV
Born
July 23, 1948
Home of record
San Antonio, Texas (Bexar County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 5, 1968
Age
20
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

22 names on the Wall carry the date December 5, 1968. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 37W, Line 46

From San Antonio

All 287 names from San Antonio →

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.