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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Ruben Lopez Rocha.

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RUBEN LOPEZ ROCHA

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

November 28, 1940 – April 27, 1966

Service record

Ruben Lopez Rocha, of Agua Dulce, Texas, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 27, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 7E, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 7E · Line 3

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
November 28, 1940
Home of record
Agua Dulce, Texas (Nueces County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 27, 1966
Age
25
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

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What was happening

Ten names on the Wall carry the date April 27, 1966. In April 1966, 406 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 106 of its members that month.

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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.