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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of John Neto Rodrigues.

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JOHN NETO RODRIGUES

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army

March 14, 1930 – November 24, 1966

Service record

John Neto Rodrigues, of Redwood City, California, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 24, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 36. His name is inscribed on Panel 12E, Line 116 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 12E · Line 116

Position of Panel 12E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
Born
March 14, 1930
Home of record
Redwood City, California (San Mateo County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 24, 1966
Age
36
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Infectious Disease

Context · from the records

What was happening

17 names on the Wall carry the date November 24, 1966. In November 1966, 641 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 12E, Line 116

From Redwood City

All 15 names from Redwood City →

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.