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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Joseph Adrian G Perron.

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JOSEPH ADRIAN G PERRON

Specialist Five · U.S. Army

August 19, 1944 – September 7, 1966

Service record

Joseph Adrian G Perron, of Madawaska, Maine, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on September 7, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 10E, Line 74 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 10E · Line 74

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Five (SP5)
Service
Regular
Born
August 19, 1944
Home of record
Madawaska, Maine (Aroostook County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 7, 1966
Age
22
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Infectious Disease

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Nine names on the Wall carry the date September 7, 1966. In September 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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From Madawaska

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.