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JOE ROSCOE BOSWELL
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
May 23, 1940 – January 25, 1969
Service recordJoe Roscoe Boswell, of Steele, Missouri, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 25, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 34W, Line 74 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34W · Line 74
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- M60a1 Tank Crewman (1811)
- Born
- May 23, 1940
- Home of record
- Steele, Missouri (Pemiscot County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 25, 1969
- Age
- 28
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date January 25, 1969; 14 of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 34W, Line 74
- ANIBAL SYLVIA CABRAL JRPrivate First Class · January 25, 1969
- SANFORD CLOSE JRLance Corporal · January 25, 1969
- JAMES RANDALL COPELANDCorporal · January 25, 1969
- BRUCE EDWARD DEERINWATERStaff Sergeant · January 25, 1969
From Steele
- OTIS LEE ALLENPrivate First Class · May 26, 1968
- EDWARD SMITH JRSpecialist Four · January 23, 1969
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.