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JOSE SANCHEZ MONTEMAYOR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 23, 1942 – March 12, 1968
Service recordJose Sanchez Montemayor, of Cotton Center, Texas, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 12, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 44E, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44E · Line 29
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 Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- September 23, 1942
- Home of record
- Cotton Center, Texas (Hale County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 12, 1968
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date March 12, 1968; two of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 47 of its members that month.
He died in Bình Dương Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 44E, Line 29
- JOHN GARY GRIFFITHLieutenant Commander · March 12, 1968
- JEFFERY EVANS MEADLance Corporal · March 12, 1968
- HAROLD METCALFPrivate First Class · March 12, 1968
- DANIEL VICTOR MICHELPrivate First Class · March 12, 1968
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES WAYNE GRAHAMSergeant · Panel 44E, Line 26
From Cotton Center
- JOSE ANGEL REYESPrivate First Class · March 2, 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.