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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 Pedro Miguel Maes.

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PEDRO MIGUEL MAES

Private First Class · U.S. Army

June 29, 1948 – May 4, 1969

Service record

Pedro Miguel Maes, of Los Angeles, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 4, 1969, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 26W, Line 111 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 26W · Line 111

Position of Panel 26W 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)
196 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
June 29, 1948
Home of record
Los Angeles, California (Los Angeles County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 4, 1969
Age
20
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

32 names on the Wall carry the date May 4, 1969; he was the only one lost in Quảng Tín Province that day. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 38 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 26W, Line 111

Same unit, same day

From Los Angeles

All 540 names from Los Angeles →

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.