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JUAN CARRILLO
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
June 16, 1946 – December 17, 1969
Service recordJuan Carrillo, of Laredo, Texas, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 17, 1969, in Binh Thuan Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 15W, Line 66 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15W · Line 66
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Basic (13A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 FIELD FORCE
- Born
- June 16, 1946
- Home of record
- Laredo, Texas (Webb County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 17, 1969
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Binh Thuan
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
14 names on the Wall carry the date December 17, 1969; three of them were lost in Binh Thuan Province. In December 1969, 509 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 11 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 15W, Line 66
- CHARLES L WASHINGTONPrivate First Class · December 16, 1969
- JAMES DENNIS CASTEELSpecialist Four · December 17, 1969
- GARY VAUGHN CLARKSergeant · December 17, 1969
- JOHN JOSEPH GALLAGHERSpecialist Four · December 17, 1969
Same unit, same day
- JOHN JOSEPH GALLAGHERSpecialist Four · Panel 15W, Line 66
- RICHARD EARL WESTFALLPrivate First Class · Panel 15W, Line 68
From Laredo
- HERIBERTO ARNALDO GARCIACaptain · November 8, 1964
- RODOLFO GUADALUPE GONZALEZSpecialist Four · November 11, 1966
- ALEJANDRO GARCIA JRSpecialist Four · December 29, 1966
- JAVIER ARTURO E SANCHEZStaff Sergeant · May 3, 1967
- RAUL VILLASpecialist Four · May 9, 1967
- JORGE SOSAPrivate First Class · June 3, 1967
- JUAN JOSE GONZALEZPrivate First Class · June 15, 1967
- GUADALUPE MARTINEZSergeant First Class · November 17, 1967
- IGNACIO TORRES JRSergeant · November 18, 1967
- HOMERO PEREZStaff Sergeant · December 1, 1967
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.