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JOHN WILLIAM ALLEN DORIO
Private First Class · U.S. Army
December 18, 1944 – October 25, 1968
Service recordJohn William Allen Dorio, of Avenel, New Jersey, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 25, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 40W, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40W · Line 32
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. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- December 18, 1944
- Home of record
- Avenel, New Jersey (Middlesex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 25, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date October 25, 1968; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 46 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 40W, Line 32
- TOM GAYLE CASEYPrivate First Class · October 25, 1968
- JAMES MICHAEL ESPOSITOCorporal · October 25, 1968
- EDWARD ENOCH GOLDER IIIFirst Lieutenant · October 25, 1968
- LEONARD ALLEN GUYCorporal · October 25, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RICHARD MICHAEL BANASZYNSKISpecialist Four · Panel 40W, Line 31
From Avenel
- PETER MAZZILLO JRLance Corporal · April 30, 1967
- TIMOTHY JOHN MURPHYPrivate First Class · June 22, 1967
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.