The Wall › Panel 23E › Texas › Reynaldo Sandoval Torres
REYNALDO SANDOVAL TORRES
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 25, 1946 – July 16, 1967
Service recordReynaldo Sandoval Torres, of Uvalde, Texas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 16, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 81 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 23E · Line 81
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.
Remember
Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.
Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- May 25, 1946
- Home of record
- Uvalde, Texas (Uvalde County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 16, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
Ten names on the Wall carry the date July 16, 1967. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 23E, Line 81
- WAYNE FRANCIS REEDPrivate First Class · July 16, 1967
- CHARLES H RICHARDS JRPrivate First Class · July 16, 1967
- WESLEY EARL BELLAMYSpecialist Four · July 17, 1967
- JESSE LEE HARRISPrivate First Class · July 17, 1967
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES EDWARD MERRIMANPrivate First Class · Panel 23E, Line 80
From Uvalde
- ALANSON GARLAND BYNUMStaff Sergeant · March 23, 1967
- RAYMUNDO GOMEZStaff Sergeant · April 1, 1967
- JUAN ANTONIO GONZALEZPrivate First Class · May 19, 1967
- JAMES YBARRA HIDALGOSpecialist Five · December 16, 1967
- GUILLERMO DELEON JRPrivate First Class · January 5, 1968
- JUAN ANTUPrivate First Class · June 9, 1968
- ALBERTO VASQUEZ SANCHEZPrivate First Class · June 25, 1968
- JUAN MANUEL RAMOSPrivate First Class · July 14, 1969
- JUAN FRANCISCO ARANDALance Corporal · October 30, 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.