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JOHN ALBERT OSCELUS
Sergeant · U.S. Army
May 17, 1947 – April 11, 1968
Service recordJohn Albert Oscelus, of Cumbola, Pennsylvania, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 11, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 49E, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 49E · Line 26
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 (SGT)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- May 17, 1947
- Home of record
- Cumbola, Pennsylvania (Schuylkill County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 11, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date April 11, 1968; three of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 96 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 49E, Line 26
- CLAUDE ROBERTSPrivate First Class · April 11, 1968
- JACK ALAN SANDERS JRLance Corporal · April 11, 1968
- CHARLES CLAIR THOMPSONSpecialist Four · April 11, 1968
- KENNETH DAVID THOMPSONPrivate First Class · April 11, 1968
Same unit, same day
- GEORGE WASHINGTON MOORESergeant · Panel 49E, Line 23
- JAMES ARTHUR DILLPrivate First Class · Panel 49E, Line 27
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.