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JOAQUIN CASTRO
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
August 21, 1931 – February 18, 1968
Service recordJoaquin Castro, of Mount Rainier, Maryland, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 18, 1968, in Ba Xugen Province, South Vietnam, at age 36. His name is inscribed on Panel 40E, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40E · Line 2
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. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Practical Nurse (91C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- August 21, 1931
- Home of record
- Mount Rainier, Maryland (Prince George's County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 18, 1968
- Age
- 36
- Province
- Ba Xugen
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
85 names on the Wall carry the date February 18, 1968; six of them were lost in Ba Xugen Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 33 of its members that month.
He died in Ba Xugen 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 40E, Line 2
- JEFFREY R BYRNEWarrant Officer 1 · February 18, 1968
- DARRELL LEE CABELLPrivate First Class · February 18, 1968
- BRUCE LEO CAREYSergeant · February 18, 1968
- HOWARD R CARPENTER JRLance Corporal · February 18, 1968
Same unit, same day
- LAWRENCE JOHN FARELLIMajor · Panel 40E, Line 4
- WILLIAM JOSEPH THORNHILLSergeant · Panel 40E, Line 15
From Mount Rainier
- JOHN WILLIAM AVELLEYRAPrivate First Class · May 28, 1967
- LOUIS PAYNE SRStaff Sergeant · January 9, 1971
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.