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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 Vicente Quintan Rodriguez.

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VICENTE QUINTAN RODRIGUEZ

Sergeant · U.S. Army

January 22, 1939 – May 12, 1966

Service record

Vicente Quintan Rodriguez, of Pharr, Texas, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 12, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 7E, Line 54 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 7E · Line 54

Position of Panel 7E 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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
January 22, 1939
Home of record
Pharr, Texas (Hidalgo County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 12, 1966
Age
27
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

28 names on the Wall carry the date May 12, 1966. In May 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 49 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 7E, Line 54

Same unit, same day

From Pharr

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.