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JOSEPH ALFRED ALBRECHT
Petty Officer First Class · U.S. Navy
June 28, 1940 – August 2, 1968
Service recordJoseph Alfred Albrecht, of Falmouth, Massachusetts, served as a Petty Officer First Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on August 2, 1968, in Chau Doc Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 50W, Line 47 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 50W · Line 47
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer First Class (PO1)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Machinist's Mate (MM)
- Born
- June 28, 1940
- Home of record
- Falmouth, Massachusetts (Barnstable County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 2, 1968
- Age
- 28
- Province
- Chau Doc
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date August 2, 1968; he was the only one lost in Chau Doc Province that day. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 50W, Line 47
- WALTER JOHN ALYEAPrivate First Class · August 2, 1968
- JAMES WARREN ARVIDSONWarrant Officer 1 · August 2, 1968
- RAFIEL AVILACorporal · August 2, 1968
- JOHN JOSEPH MCGLEWLance Corporal · August 2, 1968
From Falmouth
- EUGENE FRANCIS ROBINSONFirst Sergeant · March 9, 1966
- BERNARD EDWARD STJEANCorporal · December 21, 1966
- JOHN B BURGESSPrivate First Class · November 1, 1967
- EDWARD THOMAS MELLO JRFirst Lieutenant · April 19, 1968
- ANTHONY EDWARD KUPKASecond Lieutenant · April 16, 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.