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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 David Michael Agazzi.

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DAVID MICHAEL AGAZZI

Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy

December 4, 1947 – September 29, 1967

Service record

David Michael Agazzi, of Astoria, New York, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on September 29, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 27E · Line 26

Position of Panel 27E 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 Third Class (PO3)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Fire Control Technician (Gun Fire Control) (FTG)
Unit (as recorded)
USNAVFORV
Born
December 4, 1947
Home of record
Astoria, New York (Queens County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 29, 1967
Age
19
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

35 names on the Wall carry the date September 29, 1967; 15 of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 27E, Line 26

From Astoria

All 21 names from Astoria →

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.