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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Alan Paul Pagliaroni.

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ALAN PAUL PAGLIARONI

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

October 27, 1948 – May 3, 1968

Service record

Alan Paul Pagliaroni, of Brentwood, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 3, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 54E, Line 28 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 54E · Line 28

Position of Panel 54E 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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Armor Crewman (11E)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
October 27, 1948
Home of record
Brentwood, New York (Suffolk County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 3, 1968
Age
19
Province
Hua Nghia
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

39 names on the Wall carry the date May 3, 1968; three of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 236 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 54E, Line 28

Same unit, same day

From Brentwood

All 13 names from Brentwood →

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.