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HUMBERTO C E MELENDEZ
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
February 20, 1948 – June 11, 1969
Service recordHumberto C E Melendez, of El Paso, Texas, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 11, 1969, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 22W, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 22W · Line 24
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Duty Soldier (57A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- February 20, 1948
- Home of record
- El Paso, Texas (El Paso County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 11, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
64 names on the Wall carry the date June 11, 1969; he was the only one lost in Bình Định Province that day. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 22W, Line 24
- DAVID GEORGE MICHELSergeant · June 11, 1969
- RICHARD LEE MILLERSpecialist Five · June 11, 1969
- IVAN HALL MUNROCaptain · June 11, 1969
- ROBERT GLENN SEKVACorporal · June 11, 1969
From El Paso
- ROBERTO SAMANIEGOCaptain · June 19, 1965
- ROBERT ALLAN EIBERCaptain · June 25, 1965
- MARCOS HERNANDEZSergeant · October 30, 1965
- JOHN FREDERICK MCDERMOTTSpecialist Four · November 18, 1965
- ROBERTO ITUARTESergeant · December 11, 1965
- CHARLES ALAN ROBERTSCaptain · December 26, 1965
- WALLACE KINGSLEY SINERCaptain · January 5, 1966
- WENDELL RAY WHEATLance Corporal · February 8, 1966
- HAROLD PAUL KINDLEBERGERFirst Lieutenant · May 11, 1966
- PEDRO MUNOZHospitalman · May 12, 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.