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An AC-47D “Spooky” gunship fires on a target at night over South Vietnam.
An AC-47D “Spooky” gunship fires on a target at night over South Vietnam. Photo: U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Victor Manuel Negron.

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VICTOR MANUEL NEGRON

Airman First Class · U.S. Air Force

March 1, 1945 – September 19, 1967

Service record

Victor Manuel Negron, of Bayonne, New Jersey, served as an Airman First Class in the U.S. Air Force. He died on September 19, 1967, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 26E, Line 93 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 26E · Line 93

Position of Panel 26E 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. Air Force
Rank
Airman First Class (A1C)
Service
Regular
Born
March 1, 1945
Home of record
Bayonne, New Jersey (Hudson County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 19, 1967
Age
22
Province
Bien Hoa
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 September 19, 1967; three of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 26E, Line 93

From Bayonne

All 29 names from Bayonne →

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.