The WallVietnam Veterans Memorial · The Lake Norman Brief
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 Joe Albert Funk II.

The Wall › Panel 20E › West Virginia › Joe Albert Funk II

JOE ALBERT FUNK II

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

April 16, 1947 – May 25, 1967

Service record

Joe Albert Funk II, of Wellsburg, West Virginia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 25, 1967, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 102 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 20E · Line 102

Position of Panel 20E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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.

Remember

Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.

Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
April 16, 1947
Home of record
Wellsburg, West Virginia (Brooke County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 25, 1967
Age
20
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

49 names on the Wall carry the date May 25, 1967; 11 of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 64 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 20E, Line 102

Same unit, same day

From Wellsburg

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.