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SIMON ROSALINO MOLINA
Private First Class · U.S. Army
December 14, 1942 – November 8, 1967
Service recordSimon Rosalino Molina, of Queen Creek, Arizona, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 8, 1967, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 29E, Line 52 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29E · Line 52
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- December 14, 1942
- Home of record
- Queen Creek, Arizona (Maricopa County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 8, 1967
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
46 names on the Wall carry the date November 8, 1967; he was the only one lost in Định Tường Province that day. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 50 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 29E, Line 52
- ROBERT MATTHEWS JRPrivate First Class · November 8, 1967
- RICHARD ALLEN MEHNEPrivate First Class · November 8, 1967
- JAMES LEE NAVARROLance Corporal · November 8, 1967
- MAURICE FREDRICK NORTHRUPPrivate First Class · November 8, 1967
Same unit, same day
- PAUL WILLIAM RISINGERPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 53
From Queen Creek
- WESLEY WAYNE DAVISPrivate · September 28, 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.