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JOSEPH ALLESSIE
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
April 3, 1942 – November 25, 1968
Service recordJoseph Allessie, of North East, Pennsylvania, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 25, 1968, in Vinh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 38W, Line 60 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38W · Line 60
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- April 3, 1942
- Home of record
- North East, Pennsylvania (Erie County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 25, 1968
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Vinh Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date November 25, 1968; he was the only one lost in Vinh Long Province that day. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 38W, Line 60
- RAYMOND BRUCE MCKINNEYPrivate First Class · November 25, 1968
- JOSEPH CASTLEMAN MORRISONColonel · November 25, 1968
- CHARLEY LE MEAR MOUNTPrivate First Class · November 25, 1968
- RALPH BUDDY MULKEY JRPrivate First Class · November 25, 1968
From North East
- EDWARD M SELKREGG IIILance Corporal · October 10, 1967
- GREGORY RICHARD KELLYSpecialist Four · April 6, 1968
- GERALD REID CARRSpecialist Four · February 7, 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.