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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Jose Pablo Ramos.

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JOSE PABLO RAMOS

Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy

August 19, 1948 – September 15, 1970

Service record

Jose Pablo Ramos, of Mcallen, Texas, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on September 15, 1970, in An Xugen Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 7W, Line 66 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 7W · Line 66

Position of Panel 7W 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. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Aviation Machinist's Mate (AD)
Born
August 19, 1948
Home of record
Mcallen, Texas (Hidalgo County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 15, 1970
Age
22
Province
An Xugen
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

16 names on the Wall carry the date September 15, 1970; two of them were lost in An Xugen Province. In September 1970, 364 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 7W, Line 66

From Mcallen

All 12 names from Mcallen →

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.