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JOHN ROCCO PERRETTA
Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
April 20, 1947 – February 15, 1968
Service recordJohn Rocco Perretta, of Lowville, New York, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 15, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 39E, Line 52 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39E · Line 52
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- April 20, 1947
- Home of record
- Lowville, New York (Lewis County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 15, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date February 15, 1968; ten 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 39E, Line 52
- ANTHONY JOHN PODEBRADSKYSergeant · February 15, 1968
- GARRY REGINALD POWELLPrivate First Class · February 15, 1968
- EDWARD BEEDING QUILL JRMajor · February 15, 1968
- ALVIN LOUIS RAPERPetty Officer Second Class · February 15, 1968
From Lowville
- MARTIN LARRY HANNOSpecialist Four · November 24, 1967
- LAWRENCE KENNETH ARTHURPrivate First Class · May 28, 1968
- RICHARD WILLIAM RIALEPrivate First Class · February 12, 1969
- ALLAN RONALD GYORECaptain · March 5, 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.