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JOHN J RABIDEAU
Private First Class · U.S. Army
July 7, 1948 – April 11, 1967
Service recordJohn J Rabideau, of Easthampton, Massachusetts, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 11, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 16 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 16
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- July 7, 1948
- Home of record
- Easthampton, Massachusetts (Hampshire County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 11, 1967
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date April 11, 1967; two of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 25 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 18E, Line 16
- WILFREDO MERCADO-SANTOSPrivate First Class · April 11, 1967
- MICHAEL JOSEPH MIGUELPrivate First Class · April 11, 1967
- OLIVER WENDELL MYERSPrivate First Class · April 11, 1967
- JAMES DENNIS PIPERPrivate First Class · April 11, 1967
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES RAYStaff Sergeant · Panel 18E, Line 15
From Easthampton
- BRUCE WILLIAM MONSKAPrivate First Class · February 5, 1968
- CHARLES JOHN ROBINSONSergeant · January 7, 1969
- GEORGE FRANCIS LAPANChief Warrant Officer 2 · January 16, 1969
- DONALD MILLARD ASHTON JRCorporal · February 11, 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.