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JERONIMO ALVARADO-RIVERA
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
June 20, 1938 – December 9, 1967
Service recordJeronimo Alvarado-Rivera, of Asomante, Puerto Rico, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 9, 1967, in Ba Xugen Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 68 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31E · Line 68
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- June 20, 1938
- Home of record
- Asomante, Puerto Rico
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 9, 1967
- Age
- 29
- Province
- Ba Xugen
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
15 names on the Wall carry the date December 9, 1967; two of them were lost in Ba Xugen Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 31E, Line 68
- CLYDE RALPH COBURNCorporal · December 9, 1967
- PATRICK EDWARD DUFFYMajor · December 9, 1967
- LLOYD ALVAN DUNCANPrivate First Class · December 9, 1967
- LIVINGSTON GLENNStaff Sergeant · December 9, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JOHN PATRICK FLOOD JRSergeant · Panel 31E, Line 67
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.