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RAFAEL A VALPAIS-MORALES
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 3, 1946 – December 20, 1967
Service recordRafael A Valpais-Morales, of Ponce, Puerto Rico, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 20, 1967, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 33 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 32E · Line 33
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)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- May 3, 1946
- Home of record
- Ponce, Puerto Rico (Ponce County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 20, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date December 20, 1967; two of them were lost in Long An Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 45 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 32E, Line 33
- GARY MICHAEL RISTSpecialist Four · December 20, 1967
- HERBERT ROBERTS JRSergeant Major · December 20, 1967
- TERRY ROBERTSPrivate First Class · December 20, 1967
- BARRY ALLAN THOMPSONPrivate First Class · December 20, 1967
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM ALLEN CARTERCorporal · Panel 32E, Line 29
- GREGORY GOREPrivate First Class · Panel 32E, Line 30
From Ponce
- ELIAS ALVAREZ-BUZOSergeant · November 15, 1965
- JUVENCIO TORRES-ACEVEDOPrivate First Class · January 2, 1966
- ISRAEL VARGAS-VARGASPlatoon Sergeant · January 18, 1966
- PEDRO SANTOS-PINEDOPrivate First Class · February 20, 1966
- LESLIE ISMA MORALES-LUCASSergeant · July 2, 1966
- EUGENIO ROSADO-RODRIGUEZPrivate First Class · July 19, 1966
- EURIPIDES RUBIO JRCaptain · November 8, 1966
- MARCELI CABRERA-RODRIGUEZSpecialist Four · December 31, 1966
- JUSTINO ENRI CASTRO-RAMOSLance Corporal · April 24, 1967
- MARIO MOREU-LEONSergeant · December 6, 1967
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.