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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Maximo Paulite Fernandez.

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MAXIMO PAULITE FERNANDEZ

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

November 17, 1938 – June 6, 1966

Service record

Maximo Paulite Fernandez served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 6, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 8E, Line 14 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 8E · Line 14

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
November 17, 1938

Casualty

Date of death
June 6, 1966
Age
27
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

Ten names on the Wall carry the date June 6, 1966. In June 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 113 of its members that month.

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Also on Panel 8E, Line 14

Same unit, same day

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.