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PORFIRIO SAM SOLANO
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
February 26, 1947 – June 13, 1968
Service recordPorfirio Sam Solano, of Avondale, Colorado, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 13, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 57W, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 57W · Line 13
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- February 26, 1947
- Home of record
- Avondale, Colorado (Pueblo County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 13, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date June 13, 1968; five of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 24 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 57W, Line 13
- JAMES ROSS RICHMONDPrivate First Class · June 13, 1968
- CRAIG LEE SEIDELSpecialist Four · June 13, 1968
- EMORY MOREL SMITHStaff Sergeant · June 13, 1968
- JOE ANTHONY SNITKOPrivate First Class · June 13, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JERRY ROGER FERGUSONSergeant · Panel 57W, Line 9
- LEONARD RAY WHITECorporal · Panel 57W, Line 15
- HENRY EUGENE WOOLEYSergeant · Panel 57W, Line 15
From Avondale
- JUAN PEDRO VALDEZSpecialist Four · April 13, 1968
- DANNY GILBERT RUYBALCorporal · April 11, 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.