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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
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 Andrew Rayno.

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JOSEPH ANDREW RAYNO

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army

January 31, 1940 – December 29, 1966

Service record

Joseph Andrew Rayno, of Franklin, New Hampshire, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 29, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 13E, Line 99 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 13E · Line 99

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Staff Sergeant (SSG)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Translator-Interpreter (04B)
Born
January 31, 1940
Home of record
Franklin, New Hampshire (Merrimack County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 29, 1966
Age
26
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

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33 names on the Wall carry the date December 29, 1966. In December 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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From Franklin

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.