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VICENTE DUENAS PEREZ
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
September 10, 1929 – August 13, 1968
Service recordVicente Duenas Perez, of Mongmong, Guam, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 13, 1968, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 38. His name is inscribed on Panel 48W, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 48W · Line 8
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- September 10, 1929
- Home of record
- Mongmong, Guam (Guam County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 13, 1968
- Age
- 38
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date August 13, 1968; he was the only one lost in Bien Hoa Province that day. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 48W, Line 8
- TERRY ROBERT MEYERSergeant · August 13, 1968
- EARNEST RANDALL MULLINSSergeant · August 13, 1968
- THOMAS RICHARD POLISKYPrivate First Class · August 13, 1968
- DONALD EUGENE PRAGMANPrivate First Class · August 13, 1968
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM JOSEPH ZEMANICKSecond Lieutenant · Panel 48W, Line 10
From Mongmong
- GREGORIO L PANGELINANCorporal · March 9, 1969
- JUAN PASCUAL R CASTROStaff Sergeant · March 21, 1969
- RALPHAEL SGAMBELLUR YOKOIPrivate First Class · July 11, 1969
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.