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MELVIN CARRILLO
Private First Class · U.S. Army
February 8, 1949 – March 3, 1968
Service recordMelvin Carrillo, of Roswell, New Mexico, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 3, 1968, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 42E, Line 48 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42E · Line 48
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- AMERICAL DIV
- Born
- February 8, 1949
- Home of record
- Roswell, New Mexico (Chaves County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 3, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
65 names on the Wall carry the date March 3, 1968. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 31 of its members that month.
He died in South Vietnam while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 42E, Line 48
- DAVID ARTHUR CARLISeaman · March 3, 1968
- RONALD JEROME DENT CASPERPrivate First Class · March 3, 1968
- DAN EUGENE CHARLESPrivate First Class · March 3, 1968
- JAMES MICHAEL DARBYPrivate First Class · March 3, 1968
From Roswell
- LAVON STEPHEN WILSONSpecialist Four · February 10, 1965
- CRESENCIO PAUL SANCHEZPrivate First Class · March 4, 1966
- GERALD SHIELDS SIMONSMajor · August 8, 1966
- JULIUS MITCHELL SANDERSPrivate First Class · August 25, 1966
- JOHN RUDOLPH CUMMINS JRPrivate First Class · September 17, 1966
- LARRY PAUL CAMPOSSpecialist Four · December 3, 1966
- JOHN K ADAMSCaptain · March 26, 1967
- TRINE ROMERO JRPrivate First Class · June 22, 1967
- HECTOR MARIO SAENZPrivate First Class · June 22, 1967
- BENNIE LEE WESTCorporal · September 1, 1967
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.