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RUDY MORALES BECERRA
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
October 29, 1950 – March 24, 1970
Service recordRudy Morales Becerra, of Richmond, Texas, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He was lost on March 24, 1970, in Cambodia, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 12W, Line 37 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 12W · Line 37
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- October 29, 1950
- Home of record
- Richmond, Texas (Fort Bend County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- March 24, 1970
- Country
- Cambodia
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
- First reported
- Missing in action
Context · from the records
What was happening
19 names on the Wall carry the date March 24, 1970. In March 1970, 625 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 35 of its members that month.
The record places this loss in Cambodia, outside South Vietnam.
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 12W, Line 37
- RONALD WAYNE HURTCaptain · March 23, 1970
- WILLIAM EUGENE TAYLORPrivate First Class · March 23, 1970
- JOHN ARTHUR BORONSKISergeant First Class · March 24, 1970
- LARRY MELVIN COMISCorporal · March 24, 1970
Same unit, same day
- BERMAN GANOE JRStaff Sergeant · Panel 12W, Line 38
- JOHN CHARLES HOSKENChief Warrant Officer 3 · Panel 12W, Line 39
- MICHAEL DAVIS ODONNELLMajor · Panel 12W, Line 40
From Richmond
- JOEL DAVID FENDLEYCorporal · August 9, 1967
- RICHARD MENDOZA CORRALESPrivate First Class · April 7, 1968
- HERMAN ALLEN CLAY JRCorporal · April 9, 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.