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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Andrew Joseph Toth JR.

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ANDREW JOSEPH TOTH JR

Petty Officer First Class · U.S. Navy

May 29, 1925 – March 2, 1971

Service record

Andrew Joseph Toth JR, of Lorain, Ohio, served as a Petty Officer First Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on March 2, 1971, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 45. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 4W · Line 18

Position of Panel 4W 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. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer First Class (PO1)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Aviation Electrician's Mate (AE)
Born
May 29, 1925
Home of record
Lorain, Ohio (Lorain County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 2, 1971
Age
45
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

11 names on the Wall carry the date March 2, 1971; he was the only one lost in Quảng Nam Province that day. In March 1971, 429 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 4W, Line 18

From Lorain

All 38 names from Lorain →

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.