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JOSEPH ANTHONY AGUIRRE
Private First Class · U.S. Army
July 3, 1948 – January 26, 1969
Service recordJoseph Anthony Aguirre, of Orange, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 26, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 34W, Line 81 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34W · Line 81
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- July 3, 1948
- Home of record
- Orange, California (Orange County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 26, 1969
- 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
47 names on the Wall carry the date January 26, 1969; four of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 31 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 34W, Line 81
- CHARLES MINOR WOODALL JRSpecialist Four · January 25, 1969
- LORAN LEON BERGERSergeant · January 26, 1969
- SHERMAN DUANE BRADFORDSergeant · January 26, 1969
- MARTIN JOSEPH GIMBERTLance Corporal · January 26, 1969
Same unit, same day
- LAWRENCE LEE KEISTERSpecialist Four · Panel 34W, Line 85
- LYLE WILLIAM SCHROEDERSergeant · Panel 34W, Line 88
From Orange
- JOHN MICHAEL PHILLIPSPrivate First Class · May 3, 1966
- MICHAEL WALTER KOLEMAINENPrivate First Class · October 31, 1966
- BOBBY WESTSergeant · January 21, 1968
- RAYMOND NELSON CURLEYSpecialist Four · February 5, 1968
- KENNETH TILDEN RABEYSergeant · March 16, 1968
- DAVID ARTHUR ROSENBERGERSpecialist Four · April 4, 1968
- GARY ALAN STADINGSpecialist Four · April 25, 1968
- WILLIAM JOHN WAYSACKCorporal · May 9, 1968
- RUSSELL UDELL WESTLance Corporal · May 23, 1968
- ROBERT JAMES TODDPrivate · November 1, 1968
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.