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Men of the 173rd Airborne Brigade dig foxholes on Hill 875 near Đắk Tô, 22 November 1967.
Men of the 173rd Airborne Brigade dig foxholes on Hill 875 near Đắk Tô, 22 November 1967. Photo: SSG Alfred Batungbacal, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Terry Michael Enriquez.

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TERRY MICHAEL ENRIQUEZ

Private First Class · U.S. Army

October 3, 1945 – November 17, 1967

Service record

Terry Michael Enriquez, of Burbank, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 17, 1967, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 30E · Line 8

Position of Panel 30E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
October 3, 1945
Home of record
Burbank, California (Los Angeles County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 17, 1967
Age
22
Province
Kontum
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

32 names on the Wall carry the date November 17, 1967; ten of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. 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.

He died in Kon Tum Province while the Battle of Đắk Tô was under way. Around Đắk Tô in the Central Highlands (3–23 November 1967), the 4th Infantry Division and the 173rd Airborne Brigade fought North Vietnamese regiments for the hills along the border, ending with the assault on Hill 875 on Thanksgiving Day. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.

Also on Panel 30E, Line 8

Same unit, same day

From Burbank

All 32 names from Burbank →

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.