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VICENTE ROSA-URBINA
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
April 20, 1929 – May 6, 1969
Service recordVicente Rosa-Urbina, of Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 6, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 40. His name is inscribed on Panel 25W, Line 14 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25W · Line 14
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 5 INF DIV MECH
- Born
- April 20, 1929
- Home of record
- Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico (Aguas Buenas County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 6, 1969
- Age
- 40
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date May 6, 1969; he was the only one lost in Quảng Trị Province that day. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “5 INF DIV MECH”, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 25W, Line 14
- GILBERT GONZALES PALACIOSergeant · May 6, 1969
- KENNETH PARKERLance Corporal · May 6, 1969
- JOHN MONROE PRATTSpecialist Four · May 6, 1969
- FOSTER LEE SONNIERSpecialist Four · May 6, 1969
From Aguas Buenas
- ALBERTO PEREZ-VERGARASpecialist Four · March 13, 1966
- JUAN JOSE NAZARIOSpecialist Four · March 18, 1968
- JORGE LUIS GUZMAN-PAGANPrivate First Class · January 26, 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.