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JOHN FRANK BARANOSKI
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
September 29, 1947 – February 20, 1968
Service recordJohn Frank Baranoski, of North Plainfield, New Jersey, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 20, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 40E, Line 36 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40E · Line 36
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- September 29, 1947
- Home of record
- North Plainfield, New Jersey (Somerset County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 20, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
76 names on the Wall carry the date February 20, 1968; seven of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 40E, Line 36
- JOHN ANTHONY BAFILESpecialist Five · February 20, 1968
- RONNIE O BIGELOWSpecialist Four · February 20, 1968
- DANIEL ROGER BODINCorporal · February 20, 1968
- DAVID RUSSELL BOSWORTHSpecialist Four · February 20, 1968
From North Plainfield
- DENNIS RICHARD SCHMIDTCorporal · August 8, 1966
- RONALD PETER SANTOROLance Corporal · August 3, 1968
- WILLIAM B CHRISTENSONChief Warrant Officer 2 · July 10, 1969
- FREDERICK C KINSLER JRLance Corporal · August 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.