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PEDRO JUAN TOMAS MOTA
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 21, 1946 – August 30, 1968
Service recordPedro Juan Tomas Mota, of New York, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 30, 1968, in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 45W, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45W · Line 8
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Multichannel Transmission Systems (31M)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 SIGNAL BDE
- Born
- December 21, 1946
- Home of record
- New York, New York (Kings County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 30, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Phuoc Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date August 30, 1968; he was the only one lost in Phuoc Long Province that day. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 SIGNAL BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 45W, Line 8
- ROBERT JOHN MERCERFirst Lieutenant · August 30, 1968
- GARY WAYNE MORGANSpecialist Four · August 30, 1968
- DANIEL JOSEPH MURPHYPetty Officer Third Class · August 30, 1968
- MARVIN RUSSELL PARKERCorporal · August 30, 1968
From New York
- WALTER R MCCARTHY JRCaptain · June 16, 1962
- JOHN HOWARD MCCLEANCaptain · August 16, 1963
- DONALD ALLAN MOLLICONEFirst Lieutenant · December 20, 1963
- VINCENT JOSEPH HICKMANCaptain · January 14, 1964
- MARTIN STOCKFEDERPrivate First Class · July 15, 1964
- ROBERT GEORGE ARMSTRONGFirst Lieutenant · October 24, 1964
- DOMINICK SANSONESergeant First Class · December 10, 1964
- DONALD GILBERT COOKColonel · December 31, 1964
- TERENCE MEREDITH MURPHYLieutenant (junior grade) · April 9, 1965
- ROBERT CARL WISTRANDColonel · May 9, 1965
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.