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Men of the 173rd Airborne Brigade dig foxholes on Hill 875 near Đắk Tô, 22 November 1967.
Men of the 173rd Airborne Brigade dig foxholes on Hill 875 near Đắk Tô, 22 November 1967. Photo: SSG Alfred Batungbacal, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Gregory John Dellamandola.

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GREGORY JOHN DELLAMANDOLA

Private First Class · U.S. Army

September 22, 1946 – November 11, 1967

Service record

Gregory John Dellamandola, of Stockton, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 11, 1967, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 29E, Line 73 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 29E · Line 73

Position of Panel 29E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
September 22, 1946
Home of record
Stockton, California (San Joaquin County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 11, 1967
Age
21
Province
Kontum
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

52 names on the Wall carry the date November 11, 1967; 35 of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. 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.

He died in Kon Tum Province while the Battle of Đắk Tô was under way. Around Đắk Tô in the Central Highlands (3–23 November 1967), the 4th Infantry Division and the 173rd Airborne Brigade fought North Vietnamese regiments for the hills along the border, ending with the assault on Hill 875 on Thanksgiving Day. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.

Also on Panel 29E, Line 73

Same unit, same day

From Stockton

All 53 names from Stockton →

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.