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JOSE BAMBA DUENAS
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
April 17, 1932 – December 16, 1965
Service recordJose Bamba Duenas, of Toto, Guam, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 16, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 33. His name is inscribed on Panel 4E, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4E · Line 18
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- April 17, 1932
- Home of record
- Toto, Guam (Guam County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 16, 1965
- Age
- 33
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
Nine names on the Wall carry the date December 16, 1965. In December 1965, 326 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 77 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 4E, Line 18
- JOSEPH BRADSHAW BAGGETTMajor · December 16, 1965
- AUBURN WOOD FOREMAN JRCorporal · December 16, 1965
- RAYMOND STANLEY JOY JRCorporal · December 16, 1965
- WILLIAM ROBERT MOORELance Corporal · December 16, 1965
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.