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PEDRO VALENZUELA
Private First Class · U.S. Army
October 27, 1943 – April 9, 1968
Service recordPedro Valenzuela, of Guadalupe, Arizona, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 9, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 49E, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 49E · Line 6
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)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- October 27, 1943
- Home of record
- Guadalupe, Arizona (Maricopa County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 9, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
42 names on the Wall carry the date April 9, 1968; 12 of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 22 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 49E, Line 6
- DOUGLAS GERALD THOMPSONPrivate First Class · April 9, 1968
- ROBERT LYNN VANDERMUELENCorporal · April 9, 1968
- DAVID FREDERICK WAGNERPrivate First Class · April 9, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ANDREW JOHN BABYAK JRSpecialist Four · Panel 48E, Line 56
- GREGORY H WATKINSPrivate · Panel 49E, Line 1
- GERALD STEVEN HANSENPrivate First Class · Panel 49E, Line 2
- KENNETH ALLEN HARDINStaff Sergeant · Panel 49E, Line 2
- LARRY BARNEY JENKINSPrivate First Class · Panel 49E, Line 2
- JACK RAYMOND REINKESpecialist Four · Panel 49E, Line 5
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.