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JOHN JOSEPH CIMORELLI JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 6, 1946 – June 18, 1968
Service recordJohn Joseph Cimorelli JR, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 18, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 56W, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 56W · Line 20
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- July 6, 1946
- Home of record
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 18, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date June 18, 1968; four of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 82 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 56W, Line 20
- ELMER LEE FAULKNER JRPrivate First Class · June 18, 1968
- JERRY FLEMINGPrivate First Class · June 18, 1968
- RONALD DEAN FOGARDPrivate First Class · June 18, 1968
- JIMMIE FERREL GENTRYPrivate First Class · June 18, 1968
Same unit, same day
- NORMAN JONES JRPrivate First Class · Panel 56W, Line 23
- ARTHUR QUEZADAFirst Lieutenant · Panel 56W, Line 27
From Philadelphia
- MEIR ENGELLieutenant Colonel · December 16, 1964
- MATTHEW N HARRIS JRMaster Sergeant · May 28, 1965
- ALLEN CONRAD HERTZFirst Lieutenant · June 6, 1965
- MILO BENETT STIBBINSSpecialist Five · June 11, 1965
- JOSEPH PATRICK GRUGANCorporal · June 26, 1965
- ROWLAND JOSEPH ADAMOLICorporal · August 18, 1965
- FRANK AMOS HENISSPrivate First Class · September 7, 1965
- EARL CHARLES WILLOUGHBYChief Master Sergeant · September 7, 1965
- WILLIAM A MITCHELL IIPetty Officer Third Class · September 12, 1965
- WILLIAM GREGORY MAURONEPrivate First Class · September 30, 1965
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.