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FRANK CESARE DEUSEBIO
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
April 20, 1945 – March 18, 1968
Service recordFrank Cesare Deusebio, of Briarcliff Manor, New York, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 18, 1968, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 45E, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45E · Line 20
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Armored Reconnaissance Unit Commander (1204)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- April 20, 1945
- Home of record
- Briarcliff Manor, New York (Westchester County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 18, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Kien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
82 names on the Wall carry the date March 18, 1968; he was the only one lost in Kien Hoa Province that day. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.
He died in Kien Hoa Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 45E, Line 20
- EDWARD ALLEN DEVORE JRSpecialist Four · March 18, 1968
- THOMAS WAYNE DUKESpecialist Four · March 18, 1968
- ROY LEE ESTRADASergeant · March 18, 1968
- JOHN ANTHONY FERAFirst Lieutenant · March 18, 1968
Same unit, same day
- THEODORE MAZON JRSpecialist Four · Panel 45E, Line 25
From Briarcliff Manor
- KENNETH LEWIS HIRST JRLance Corporal · May 13, 1967
- RANDALL BREWARD PURDYLance Corporal · December 19, 1967
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.