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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Pedro Luis Lamourt-Tosado.

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PEDRO LUIS LAMOURT-TOSADO

Private First Class · U.S. Army

December 2, 1943 – June 28, 1966

Service record

Pedro Luis Lamourt-Tosado, of Camuy, Puerto Rico, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 28, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 8E, Line 105 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 8E · Line 105

Position of Panel 8E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
December 2, 1943
Home of record
Camuy, Puerto Rico (Camuy County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 28, 1966
Age
22
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

19 names on the Wall carry the date June 28, 1966. In June 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 73 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 8E, Line 105

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.