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JESSE ROMERO CASTRO
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 19, 1946 – March 9, 1967
Service recordJesse Romero Castro, of Fremont, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 9, 1967, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 44 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16E · Line 44
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Armor Crewman (11E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- A CO 2 BN 34 ARM 25 INF DIV
- Born
- August 19, 1946
- Home of record
- Fremont, California (Alameda County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 9, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
38 names on the Wall carry the date March 9, 1967; two of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “A CO 2 BN 34 ARM 25 INF DIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 16E, Line 44
- MCKINLEY CAUGHMAN JRSpecialist Four · March 9, 1967
- IVEL DOAN FREEMANMajor · March 9, 1967
- FREDDIE LYNN FRIARPrivate First Class · March 9, 1967
- WILLIS LEE FURNEYSergeant · March 9, 1967
From Fremont
- CHESTER KEITH NUESSECorporal · March 11, 1967
- STEVE LOPEZSpecialist Four · March 20, 1967
- EDWARD ORAN CLAEYSPrivate First Class · May 17, 1967
- ROBERT BRUCE DEMELLOSpecialist Four · June 3, 1967
- JAMES ROBERT DUNCANPrivate First Class · September 2, 1967
- THOMAS GERARD BRADYSergeant · November 21, 1967
- JOHN WALLACE JONESLance Corporal · December 6, 1967
- GARY LEE MERIDITHHospitalman · January 2, 1968
- DANIEL ESCOBEDOLance Corporal · January 27, 1968
- DONALD EUGENE CLARKSpecialist Four · February 6, 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.