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LOUIS RODRIGUEZ
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
June 25, 1928 – December 20, 1968
Service recordLouis Rodriguez, of Ambridge, Pennsylvania, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 20, 1968, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 40. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 54 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36W · Line 54
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- June 25, 1928
- Home of record
- Ambridge, Pennsylvania (Beaver County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 20, 1968
- Age
- 40
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date December 20, 1968; six of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 17 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 36W, Line 54
- MICHAEL JOSEPH OTOOLEPrivate First Class · December 20, 1968
- ROBERT FRED SCHNEBELSpecialist Four · December 20, 1968
- ROBERT EUGENE SMITH JRSpecialist Five · December 20, 1968
- HOWARD JAMES VAUGHANCorporal · December 20, 1968
Same unit, same day
- KEVIN THOMAS CONNOLLYPrivate First Class · Panel 36W, Line 48
- WAYNE STEPHENS CRANDALLPrivate First Class · Panel 36W, Line 49
- RONALD ALAN JARVISPrivate First Class · Panel 36W, Line 51
From Ambridge
- SAMUEL LIGHTMANPrivate First Class · November 2, 1966
- BENNIE JOE PAOLANTONIOSpecialist Four · March 20, 1967
- WILLIAM JOSEPH POTTER JRLieutenant Colonel · December 29, 1967
- CHARLES WILLIAM SETHSpecialist Four · September 14, 1968
- FRANK ALBERT SKOCICHPrivate First Class · September 17, 1968
- WALTER HERBERT BUCKA JRStaff Sergeant · February 6, 1970
- JOHN ANTHONY OGRIZEKCorporal · September 26, 1970
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.