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HIGINIO OVALLE OVIEDO
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 11, 1945 – April 8, 1967
Service recordHiginio Ovalle Oviedo, of Raymondville, Texas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 8, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 127 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 127
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- January 11, 1945
- Home of record
- Raymondville, Texas (Willacy County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 8, 1967
- Age
- 22
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
56 names on the Wall carry the date April 8, 1967. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 25 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 17E, Line 127
- NATHAN EDDLOW PEACOCK JRStaff Sergeant · April 8, 1967
- JAMES WARDEN PELTIERPrivate First Class · April 8, 1967
- JOHN HARRY PERDUEPrivate First Class · April 8, 1967
- JAMES ARTHUR POPPPrivate First Class · April 8, 1967
Same unit, same day
- TERRENCE GLADE DIXONCorporal · Panel 17E, Line 121
- FELIX F F LEYVA-PARRA-FRIASPrivate First Class · Panel 17E, Line 125
- DON LESLIE MICHAELSpecialist Four · Panel 17E, Line 125
- ALBERT MARSHALL GUYERFirst Lieutenant · Panel 17E, Line 126
- ROBERT THOMPSON JRPrivate First Class · Panel 18E, Line 1
From Raymondville
- JOE A SAUCEDAPrivate First Class · March 23, 1967
- OSCAR ANZALDUAPrivate First Class · August 29, 1967
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.