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LIONEL MALDONADO-TORRES
Corporal · U.S. Army
April 21, 1949 – September 17, 1968
Service recordLionel Maldonado-Torres, of Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on September 17, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 43W, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43W · Line 17
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- April 21, 1949
- Home of record
- Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico (Juana Diaz County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 17, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
64 names on the Wall carry the date September 17, 1968; he was the only one lost in Định Tường Province that day. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 79 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 43W, Line 17
- LEON EDWARD KIZZIEPrivate First Class · September 17, 1968
- GEORGE LEE JRSpecialist Four · September 17, 1968
- JERRY LEE MARCUMPrivate First Class · September 17, 1968
- JAMES EDWARD MARLOWSergeant · September 17, 1968
From Juana Diaz
- NOE MIRANDA-PEREZPrivate First Class · January 29, 1966
- HECTOR RIVERA-COLONSergeant First Class · May 27, 1968
- LUIS ALFONSO VELEZ-RIVERASergeant · October 4, 1968
- GOLGUIS COLON-RODRIGUEZPrivate First Class · January 1, 1970
- ADOLFO GONZALEZ-LOPEZSergeant · February 25, 1971
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.