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HIGINIO RODRIGUEZ TORRES
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 7, 1951 – September 2, 1971
Service recordHiginio Rodriguez Torres, of Harbor City, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on September 2, 1971, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 2W, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2W · Line 9
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- May 7, 1951
- Home of record
- Harbor City, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 2, 1971
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Died of other causes
Context · from the records
What was happening
Eight names on the Wall carry the date September 2, 1971; three of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In September 1971, 127 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 24 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 2W, Line 9
- JOHN FRIEL WEBBSpecialist Four · September 2, 1971
- JOSE ENRIQUE ZAYASSpecialist Five · September 2, 1971
- JAMES ANTHONY MARESHSergeant · September 3, 1971
Same unit, same day
- GORDON LEE KIMMELSpecialist Four · Panel 2W, Line 8
- JOSE ENRIQUE ZAYASSpecialist Five · Panel 2W, Line 9
From Harbor City
- CURTIS BROCKINGTONPrivate First Class · July 3, 1966
- MICHAEL FRANK COOKPrivate First Class · July 29, 1966
- EDWARD ALLEN DEVORE JRSpecialist Four · March 18, 1968
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.