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HUMBERTO ACOSTA-ROSARIO
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
January 15, 1947 – August 22, 1968
Service recordHumberto Acosta-Rosario, of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He was lost on August 22, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 47W, Line 30 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47W · Line 30
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 5 INF DIV MECH
- Born
- January 15, 1947
- Home of record
- Mayaguez, Puerto Rico (Mayaguez County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- August 22, 1968
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Unknown
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
58 names on the Wall carry the date August 22, 1968; 11 of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “5 INF DIV MECH”, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 47W, Line 30
- DAVID ALFRED MCAFEEPrivate First Class · August 22, 1968
- JAMES K MCALEER IIIWarrant Officer 1 · August 22, 1968
- ROBERT DOUGLAS MOYECorporal · August 22, 1968
- PAUL FRANCIS OLEARYPrivate First Class · August 22, 1968
From Mayaguez
- RAMON BERNARDSergeant · November 15, 1965
- JAIME IRIZARRY-PEREZStaff Sergeant · January 12, 1966
- JULIO SERRANO-RIVERAPrivate First Class · June 10, 1968
- JOSE ANTONIO MATOS-CORREAPrivate First Class · August 12, 1968
- BENJAMIN MALDONADO-AGUILARSpecialist Four · February 5, 1969
- JAIME PADILLA-JORGECorporal · June 1, 1969
- REINALD SANTIAGO-CASTILLO JRSpecialist Four · January 14, 1970
- ROBERTO RAMOS-LOPEZSpecialist Four · May 7, 1966
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.