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RODOLFO JOSE ARCHULETA
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 12, 1948 – December 7, 1968
Service recordRodolfo Jose Archuleta, of Clinton, Utah, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 7, 1968, in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 54 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 54
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- March 12, 1948
- Home of record
- Clinton, Utah (Davis County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 7, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Phuoc Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date December 7, 1968; three of them were lost in Phuoc Long Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 103 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 37W, Line 54
- WILLIAM WALTER WAGNERPrivate First Class · December 6, 1968
- JIMMY DEAN BIGGSPrivate First Class · December 7, 1968
- JAMES WISDOM BOWLINGPrivate First Class · December 7, 1968
- LAWRENCE JAMES BROWNPrivate First Class · December 7, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RICHARD FLAMOND HARRISPrivate First Class · Panel 37W, Line 56
- JOHN LOUIS WAUGHPrivate First Class · Panel 37W, Line 60
From Clinton
- HENRY ORLANDO VIGILCorporal · August 15, 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.