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LUIS ALFONSO LOPEZ-RAMOS
Sergeant · U.S. Army
August 8, 1947 – June 3, 1968
Service recordLuis Alfonso Lopez-Ramos, of Calexico, California, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 3, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 60W, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 60W · Line 2
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 (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- August 8, 1947
- Home of record
- Calexico, California (Imperial County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 3, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
61 names on the Wall carry the date June 3, 1968; three of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 82 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 60W, Line 2
- CHARLES FRANK HUFFLance Corporal · June 3, 1968
- WILLIAM LEE JARBOEPrivate First Class · June 3, 1968
- KENNETH WALTER KINGPrivate First Class · June 3, 1968
- BILLIE CLIFFORD LOOMISPrivate First Class · June 3, 1968
Same unit, same day
- NICKOLAS SZAWALUKSpecialist Four · Panel 60W, Line 6
From Calexico
- GEORGE RICHARD ANNOSSpecialist Four · May 16, 1967
- RAMON S HERNANDEZ JRPrivate First Class · August 30, 1968
- WILLIAM DANIELS JRCorporal · May 14, 1969
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.