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ROLANDO CUEVAS DAYAO
Petty Officer First Class · U.S. Navy
June 29, 1935 – October 2, 1969
Service recordRolando Cuevas Dayao served as a Petty Officer First Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on October 2, 1969, in North Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 17W, Line 25 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17W · Line 25
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer First Class (PO1)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Personnelman (PN)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USS WALKER DD 517
- Born
- June 29, 1935
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 2, 1969
- Age
- 34
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
45 names on the Wall carry the date October 2, 1969. In October 1969, 600 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USS WALKER DD 517”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
The record places this loss in North Vietnam, outside South Vietnam — most often the sign of an air crew lost over the North or the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
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.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 17W, Line 25
- MICHAEL LEE BOWMANPetty Officer Third Class · October 2, 1969
- NATHANIEL BUSHPrivate First Class · October 2, 1969
- DONALD CHESTER DEANPetty Officer Second Class · October 2, 1969
- HERBERT HUGH DILGERLieutenant · October 2, 1969
Same unit, same day
- LEONARDO MEDINA GANChief Petty Officer · Panel 17W, Line 26
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.