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JOSEPH ALVIN TERESINSKI
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 19, 1950 – February 6, 1971
Service recordJoseph Alvin Teresinski, of Oneida, Wisconsin, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 6, 1971, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 5W, Line 82 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 5W · Line 82
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- September 19, 1950
- Home of record
- Oneida, Wisconsin (Outagamie County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 6, 1971
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
12 names on the Wall carry the date February 6, 1971; he was the only one lost in Thừa Thiên Province that day. In February 1971, 387 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 50 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 5W, Line 82
- WILLIAM BARTON RHODESPrivate First Class · February 6, 1971
- ROBERT JAMES ROGERSSpecialist Five · February 6, 1971
- CURTIS LELAND WILLIAMSSpecialist Four · February 6, 1971
- THEODORE RAYMOND MASONCorporal · February 7, 1971
From Oneida
- PAUL EMERSON CHRISTJOHNPrivate First Class · September 9, 1968
- THOMAS CHARLES LARSENSpecialist Four · September 8, 1970
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.