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VICENTE ZUNIGA
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 8, 1946 – December 21, 1966
Service recordVicente Zuniga, of Fresno, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 21, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 13E, Line 70 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 13E · Line 70
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- May 8, 1946
- Home of record
- Fresno, California (Fresno County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 21, 1966
- Age
- 20
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date December 21, 1966. In December 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 36 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 13E, Line 70
- JAMES FRANCIS WENDOLOWSKISpecialist Four · December 21, 1966
- ROBERT GEORGE WILKIEPrivate First Class · December 21, 1966
- RICHARD GENE WORMDAHLSpecialist Four · December 21, 1966
- GENE LYLE BETTGERSpecialist Four · December 22, 1966
Same unit, same day
- EDWARD LEROY BROCKSergeant · Panel 13E, Line 66
- SPOTSWOOD DEWITTFirst Lieutenant · Panel 13E, Line 67
- MARVIN THOMAS HUGHESSergeant · Panel 13E, Line 67
- WILLIAM DONALD MULLINSStaff Sergeant · Panel 13E, Line 68
- NORMAN GEORGE TOENNIESSpecialist Four · Panel 13E, Line 69
From Fresno
- FRANK DUVALL WILLIAMSSpecialist Five · December 11, 1964
- HENRY THOMAS LUNAPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- CARL MICHAEL HUMESpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
- DANNY JAY MCGRIFFPrivate First Class · February 28, 1966
- MICHAEL B MAULDINPrivate First Class · May 17, 1966
- DONALD THEODORE ERICKSONStaff Sergeant · August 2, 1966
- JOE MAGDALENO BALLIN JRLance Corporal · September 16, 1966
- MANUEL AVILA JRPetty Officer Third Class · November 12, 1966
- MICHAEL R BROWNPrivate First Class · December 29, 1966
- JAMES EDWARD THOMAS JRPrivate First Class · January 28, 1967
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.