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JOSE ANTONIO GRANIELA JR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
June 22, 1944 – August 16, 1968
Service recordJose Antonio Graniela JR, of Brentwood, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 16, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 48W, Line 25 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 48W · Line 25
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- June 22, 1944
- Home of record
- Brentwood, New York (Suffolk County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 16, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
55 names on the Wall carry the date August 16, 1968; seven of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 86 of its members that month.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 48W, Line 25
- ARTHUR RAYMOND DUPREYCorporal · August 16, 1968
- ROBERT CHARLES GARDNERCorporal · August 16, 1968
- JOHN ALOIS GERDESMEIERPrivate First Class · August 16, 1968
- LEWIS CLARENCE GILLSCorporal · August 16, 1968
Same unit, same day
- LURAL LEE BLEVINS IIISpecialist Four · Panel 48W, Line 22
- DAVID CHISUMPrivate First Class · Panel 48W, Line 23
- CRAWFORD JACKSON JRCorporal · Panel 48W, Line 27
- RAMIRO MICHAEL MORASergeant First Class · Panel 48W, Line 28
- GORDON A SKINNER IICaptain · Panel 48W, Line 30
From Brentwood
- RICHARD P LANCASTER JRPrivate First Class · February 20, 1966
- WILLIAM WELLSPrivate First Class · May 18, 1967
- EDWARD LYNN LABARRPetty Officer Third Class · July 29, 1967
- JAMES SEIDENSTICKERPrivate First Class · January 31, 1968
- PETER COLICCHIOPrivate First Class · February 15, 1968
- NICHOLAS HEFER FRITZPrivate First Class · March 1, 1968
- MICHAEL CACCIUTTOLOPrivate First Class · April 23, 1968
- ALAN PAUL PAGLIARONISpecialist Four · May 3, 1968
- GARY ARNALDO GUASPSecond Lieutenant · May 5, 1968
- DANIEL JOHN HOMMELCorporal · May 25, 1968
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.