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JEFFREY ANTONE PINHEIRO
Sergeant · U.S. Army
August 19, 1947 – February 11, 1968
Service recordJeffrey Antone Pinheiro, of South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on February 11, 1968, in Darlac Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 38E, Line 79 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38E · Line 79
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- August 19, 1947
- Home of record
- South Dartmouth, Massachusetts (Bristol County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 11, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Darlac
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
44 names on the Wall carry the date February 11, 1968; he was the only one lost in Darlac Province that day. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 24 of its members that month.
He died in Darlac 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.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 38E, Line 79
- CHARLES ELVIN MCDOWELLStaff Sergeant · February 11, 1968
- MICHAEL JOSEPH MUETINGPetty Officer Third Class · February 11, 1968
- MICHAEL NEMETHPrivate First Class · February 11, 1968
- IRVING CLARENCE PIERCE JRPrivate First Class · February 11, 1968
From South Dartmouth
- RUSSELL VIVEIROS ALMEIDALance Corporal · December 20, 1965
- CLEAVELAND FLOYD BRIDGMANFirst Lieutenant · April 1, 1970
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.