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A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter.
A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter. Photo: SP4 James B. Egan, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Leopoldo Perea Serna.

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LEOPOLDO PEREA SERNA

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

April 6, 1946 – May 2, 1967

Service record

Leopoldo Perea Serna, of Baldwin Park, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 2, 1967, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 19E, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 19E · Line 20

Position of Panel 19E 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. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Medical Specialist (91B)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
April 6, 1946
Home of record
Baldwin Park, California (Los Angeles County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 2, 1967
Age
21
Province
Long An
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

56 names on the Wall carry the date May 2, 1967; 18 of them were lost in Long An Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 64 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 19E, Line 20

Same unit, same day

From Baldwin Park

All 18 names from Baldwin Park →

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.