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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Ramon Hernandez Torres.

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RAMON HERNANDEZ TORRES

Sergeant · U.S. Army

August 31, 1945 – November 24, 1967

Service record

Ramon Hernandez Torres, of Aransas Pass, Texas, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 24, 1967, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 82 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 30E · Line 82

Position of Panel 30E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
August 31, 1945
Home of record
Aransas Pass, Texas (Aransas County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 24, 1967
Age
22
Province
Bien Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

39 names on the Wall carry the date November 24, 1967; six of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 50 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 30E, Line 82

Same unit, same day

From Aransas Pass

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.