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JOSE ENRIQUE ZAYAS
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
September 12, 1951 – September 2, 1971
Service recordJose Enrique Zayas, of High Point, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on September 2, 1971, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 2W, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2W · Line 9
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Chaplain Assistant (71M)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- September 12, 1951
- Home of record
- High Point, North Carolina (Guilford County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 2, 1971
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Vehicle Crash (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
Eight names on the Wall carry the date September 2, 1971; three of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In September 1971, 127 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 24 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 2W, Line 9
- HIGINIO RODRIGUEZ TORRESSpecialist Four · September 2, 1971
- JOHN FRIEL WEBBSpecialist Four · September 2, 1971
- JAMES ANTHONY MARESHSergeant · September 3, 1971
Same unit, same day
- GORDON LEE KIMMELSpecialist Four · Panel 2W, Line 8
- HIGINIO RODRIGUEZ TORRESSpecialist Four · Panel 2W, Line 9
From High Point
- CHARLES CLAYBOURN COXSergeant · November 4, 1965
- VICKEY EARL STANLEYPrivate First Class · September 27, 1966
- PHILIP OWEN PARRISHPrivate First Class · June 2, 1967
- JAMES EARL JENKINSPrivate First Class · November 12, 1967
- REMBERT CRAWFORD JRStaff Sergeant · February 5, 1968
- FLOYD TYRONE SPENCERSergeant · March 11, 1968
- HASKER LEE NESBITT JRPrivate First Class · May 19, 1968
- JOHN ULMER MCALISTERStaff Sergeant · May 23, 1968
- MILTON EUGENE FLOWERSCorporal · May 29, 1968
- RONALD LEE MABEPrivate First Class · May 29, 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.