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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Frank John Demarco.

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FRANK JOHN DEMARCO

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army

September 16, 1939 – August 29, 1967

Service record

Frank John Demarco, of Yuba City, California, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on August 29, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 62 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 25E · Line 62

Position of Panel 25E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Staff Sergeant (SSG)
Service
Regular
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
September 16, 1939
Home of record
Yuba City, California (Sutter County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 29, 1967
Age
27
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Drowning

Context · from the records

What was happening

31 names on the Wall carry the date August 29, 1967. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 32 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 25E, Line 62

Same unit, same day

From Yuba City

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.