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RAPHAEL LORENZO COLLAZO
Sergeant · U.S. Army
August 24, 1947 – March 17, 1968
Service recordRaphael Lorenzo Collazo, of Gardena, California, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He was lost on March 17, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 96 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4W · Line 96
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
- Born
- August 24, 1947
- Home of record
- Gardena, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- March 17, 1968
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
- First reported
- Missing in action
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date March 17, 1968; four of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
He died in Định Tường Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Also on Panel 4W, Line 96
- DONALD RAY BAILEYCorporal · March 31, 1971
- ROBERT LEESpecialist Four · March 31, 1971
- RANDOLPH LEE MARTHEPrivate First Class · March 31, 1971
- HAROLD EDWIN MYERSSpecialist Four · March 31, 1971
From Gardena
- ERVELL MADRID GUEVARAPrivate · June 22, 1966
- STEPHEN ERNEST DUKEHARTPrivate · December 23, 1966
- JIMMIE CARTER MARTINPrivate First Class · March 6, 1967
- BERNARDINO GONZALEZ JRPrivate First Class · April 6, 1967
- GEORGE RICHARD LINDERSergeant · May 16, 1967
- MACK EDWARD GREGORYPrivate First Class · May 20, 1967
- ALFRED FRANKLIN SIMPSONCorporal · August 9, 1967
- JOHN MARTIN KEPPLERPrivate First Class · September 15, 1967
- JAMES ARLIA BLANKENSHIPPrivate First Class · December 31, 1967
- RICKEY EUGENE APPLEBYLance Corporal · March 9, 1968
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.