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JOHN JOSEPH UGINO
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 19, 1948 – January 8, 1968
Service recordJohn Joseph Ugino, of Mt Morris, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 8, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 34E, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34E · Line 1
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
- Machinegunner (0331)
- Unit (as recorded)
- K CO 3 BN 26 MAR 3 MARDIV
- Born
- January 19, 1948
- Home of record
- Mt Morris, New York (Livingston County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 8, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
101 names on the Wall carry the date January 8, 1968; 43 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “K CO 3 BN 26 MAR 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 34E, Line 1
- PHILIP STANLEY STRAND JRCorporal · January 8, 1968
- GARY ALAN TEETERLance Corporal · January 8, 1968
- WILLIAM EDWARD TIEMANSpecialist Four · January 8, 1968
- FLORENCIO G VILLANUEVAStaff Sergeant · January 8, 1968
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS ALLEN GRIMESStaff Sergeant · Panel 33E, Line 88
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.