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PEDRO INCARNACION GARCIA
Sergeant · U.S. Army
October 18, 1947 – March 25, 1967
Service recordPedro Incarnacion Garcia, of Corpus Christi, Texas, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 25, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 43 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 43
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
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- October 18, 1947
- Home of record
- Corpus Christi, Texas (Multiple County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 25, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date March 25, 1967; 11 of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 45 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 17E, Line 43
- ROBERT LEE BURDETTEPrivate First Class · March 25, 1967
- RAYMOND ROGER DEMOEPrivate First Class · March 25, 1967
- JAMES WILLIAM EVANSPrivate First Class · March 25, 1967
- ALBERT CLIFTON FILES JRSergeant · March 25, 1967
Same unit, same day
- DOUGLAS JOE CARPENTERPrivate First Class · Panel 17E, Line 42
- GEORGE TOLLOVAR COXSergeant · Panel 17E, Line 42
- JAMES WILLIAM EVANSPrivate First Class · Panel 17E, Line 43
- ROCKWELL SELDEN HERRONPrivate First Class · Panel 17E, Line 44
- DOUGLAS EUGENE MOORESergeant · Panel 17E, Line 46
- DONALD RAY SANDERSPrivate First Class · Panel 17E, Line 47
From Corpus Christi
- FAYBERT RAY BRADSHAWStaff Sergeant · July 20, 1965
- JOE THOMAS WELBORNChief Warrant Officer 2 · November 4, 1965
- WILLIAM A JENNINGS IIICorporal · December 13, 1965
- MIGUEL GARCIA JRPrivate First Class · April 22, 1966
- WILLIAM R MINDACHSpecialist Four · July 6, 1966
- BENITO PEREZFirst Sergeant · August 2, 1966
- RAUL FLORESLance Corporal · August 7, 1966
- JERRY PHILLIPSPetty Officer Second Class · August 11, 1966
- ALFREDO CASTANONPrivate First Class · September 24, 1966
- DWIGHT KING SATTERWHITEPrivate First Class · September 24, 1966
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.