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HERNANDEZ, ARTHUR

Rank / Branch:

  • CORPORAL (POSTHUMOUS), U.S. ARMY

Date Of Birth:

  • 1949-08-17

Country Of Loss:

  • SOUTH VIETNAM

Status:

  • NON-HOSTILE-OTHER ACCIDENT

Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground:​

  • GROUND

Other:

  • NOT MARRIED

Unit:

  • 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION

Date Of Loss:

  • 1971-04-01

Loss Coordinates:

  • QUANG TRI

Catagory:

  • BODY RETURNED

Awards & Decorations:

  • SEE BIO

VETERAN HAGI0GRAPHY

  • HERNANDEZ, ARTHUR, CORPORAL, BIG SPRING, HOWARD, TEXAS

AWARDS AND DECORATIONS

  • COMBAT INFANTRYMANS BADGE, PARACHUTE WINGS, BRONZE STAR, NATIONAL DEFENSE SERVICE MEDAL, VIETNAM SERVICE MEDAL, VIETNAM MILITARY MERIT MEDAL, VIETNAM CROSS OF GALLANTRY WITH PALM, VIETNAM CAMPAIGN MEDAL

BIOGRAPHY

  • Arthur Hernandez was born and raised in Big Spring. He was the son of Lidia Tercero and Arthur F. Hernandez. He attended Big Spring High School and was a 1968 graduate of Big Spring High School. After high school, he attended Howard College and was employed at the Big Spring State Hospital. He enlisted in the Army in June 1970 and had completed basic training and AIT in infantry at Fort Ord, California. He then completed parachute training at Fort Benning, Georgia and received training in radio communications at Fort Huachuca, Arizona before starting his tour in Vietnam.
  • He began in tour in Vietnam on January 10, 1971. He was assigned as an infantryman to Company C, 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment (Currahee). He was one of four men killed in a friendly artillery fire incident on April 1, 1971. He was posthumously promoted to Corporal and received a Bronze Star Medal posthumously and the medals were presented to his family in a ceremony at St. Thomas Catholic Church in Big Spring on July 15, 1971.
  • He was buried with full military honors in the Mount Olive Cemtery in Big Spring, Texas. He was survived by his parents and his two sisters, Mrs. Mary Ann Rodriguez of Lawton, Oklahoma, and Miss Linda Sue Hernandez of Big Spring, by his paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. A.M. Hernandez of Big Spring and his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Susanna Bonillia of California.
  • IN THE FIELD WITH THE 101ST `971
  • BIG SPRING HIGH SCHOOL, 1968
  • MOUNT OLIVE CEMETERY, BIG SPRING, TEXAS