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JOSEPH ANDREW GARCIA
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
February 4, 1948 – January 31, 1968
Service recordJoseph Andrew Garcia, of Ely, Nevada, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 31, 1968, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 36E, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36E · Line 9
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- February 4, 1948
- Home of record
- Ely, Nevada (White Pine County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 31, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
246 names on the Wall carry the date January 31, 1968; five of them were lost in Binh Long Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 37 of its members that month.
He died in Binh Long Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 36E, Line 9
- ERNEST ELWOOD FREUND JRPrivate First Class · January 31, 1968
- JOHN JOSEPH FULLERTON JRPrivate First Class · January 31, 1968
- SAM HARRIS GALLOWAYSecond Lieutenant · January 31, 1968
- OWEN NIEL GARNETCorporal · January 31, 1968
Same unit, same day
- GREGORY VAUGHAN GRAYSergeant · Panel 36E, Line 4
- CLARENCE LOVICE EVANSPrivate First Class · Panel 36E, Line 7
- MARVIN HAROLD JONES JRPrivate First Class · Panel 36E, Line 18
From Ely
- JOSEPH EDWARD BOWERMajor · August 3, 1965
- CARL JAMES CUEPrivate First Class · May 2, 1967
- RICHARD MAX YELLANDSergeant · September 25, 1967
- RICHARD OWEN GRIFFITHPrivate First Class · October 9, 1968
- RICK V JENSENSergeant · February 10, 1969
- TIMOTHY GENE CARTERLance Corporal · July 15, 1969
- STEVEN TIMOTHY HOWEPrivate First Class · September 28, 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.