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PETER PEREZ
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 22, 1946 – June 9, 1968
Service recordPeter Perez, of Mendota, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 9, 1968, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 58W, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 58W · Line 13
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- August 22, 1946
- Home of record
- Mendota, California (Fresno County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 9, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Infectious Disease
Context · from the records
What was happening
58 names on the Wall carry the date June 9, 1968; he was the only one lost in Bien Hoa Province that day. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 16 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 58W, Line 13
- CHARLES WELDON HAMMONDSpecialist Four · June 9, 1968
- JOHN CHARLES PENNINGTONCorporal · June 9, 1968
- ROBERT LOUIS POLKLance Corporal · June 9, 1968
- JAMES EDWARD PRINGLESergeant · June 9, 1968
From Mendota
- JESUS ROJAS BERMUDEZPrivate First Class · November 1, 1965
- CHARLES DAVID YLLANLance Corporal · November 21, 1969
- BOYD ADAM STEPHENS JRSpecialist Four · July 3, 1970
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.