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PEPITO RIVERA ACERET
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
November 9, 1942 – December 7, 1969
Service recordPepito Rivera Aceret, of Ewa, Hawaii, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on December 7, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 15W, Line 34 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15W · Line 34
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
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Track Vehicle Repairer (63H)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- November 9, 1942
- Home of record
- Ewa, Hawaii (Honolulu County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 7, 1969
- Age
- 27
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Vehicle Crash (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date December 7, 1969; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In December 1969, 509 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 15W, Line 34
- RICHARD MARTIN THOMPSONCorporal · December 6, 1969
- DANIEL ROGER ZUTTERCorporal · December 6, 1969
- ALBERT LEE BELLPrivate First Class · December 7, 1969
- ROY JOHN BUTTSPrivate First Class · December 7, 1969
From Ewa
- ROBERT RUSSELL BODESergeant First Class · July 6, 1966
- ROGER ROGELIO PANGANSergeant · July 21, 1969
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.