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JOSEPH ANGELO CESTARE
First Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps
November 4, 1942 – April 20, 1968
Service recordJoseph Angelo Cestare, of New York, New York, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 20, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 51E, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 51E · Line 5
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1STLT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Pilot Hmh/M/L/A Uh-1n Qualified (I) (7563)
- Unit (as recorded)
- VMO 2 MAG 16 1 MAW
- Born
- November 4, 1942
- Home of record
- New York, New York (Kings County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 20, 1968
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date April 20, 1968; eight of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “VMO 2 MAG 16 1 MAW”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 51E, Line 5
- LEWIS JOHN YOUNGPrivate First Class · April 19, 1968
- KENT ROBERT BOLTERPrivate First Class · April 20, 1968
- LARRY JAMES BRANAUGHWarrant Officer 1 · April 20, 1968
- EDWARD EUGENE CARTERLance Corporal · April 20, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JOSEPH A ZUTTERMAN JRSergeant · Panel 51E, Line 9
From New York
- WALTER R MCCARTHY JRCaptain · June 16, 1962
- JOHN HOWARD MCCLEANCaptain · August 16, 1963
- DONALD ALLAN MOLLICONEFirst Lieutenant · December 20, 1963
- VINCENT JOSEPH HICKMANCaptain · January 14, 1964
- MARTIN STOCKFEDERPrivate First Class · July 15, 1964
- ROBERT GEORGE ARMSTRONGFirst Lieutenant · October 24, 1964
- DOMINICK SANSONESergeant First Class · December 10, 1964
- DONALD GILBERT COOKColonel · December 31, 1964
- TERENCE MEREDITH MURPHYLieutenant (junior grade) · April 9, 1965
- ROBERT CARL WISTRANDColonel · May 9, 1965
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.