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AMBROSE JOSEPH CERENE
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
August 8, 1941 – November 20, 1967
Service recordAmbrose Joseph Cerene, of Olyphant, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on November 20, 1967, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 39 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 30E · Line 39
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- General Vehicle Repairman (63C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- August 8, 1941
- Home of record
- Olyphant, Pennsylvania (Lackawanna County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 20, 1967
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
79 names on the Wall carry the date November 20, 1967; he was the only one lost in Pleiku Province that day. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 142 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 30E, Line 39
- THOMAS LOUIS CORBETTSpecialist Four · November 20, 1967
- CLAUDE LEE CRAWFORDPrivate · November 20, 1967
- BRUCE WAYNE CUNNINGHAMSpecialist Four · November 20, 1967
- TROY ALEXANDER GALYANSpecialist Four · November 20, 1967
From Olyphant
- THEODORE MOSTOWSKIChief Warrant Officer 2 · November 22, 1968
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.