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JOSEPH CLAIR CORRELL
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
January 6, 1933 – January 12, 1966
Service recordJoseph Clair Correll, of Hamburg, Pennsylvania, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 12, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 33. His name is inscribed on Panel 4E, Line 66 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4E · Line 66
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- January 6, 1933
- Home of record
- Hamburg, Pennsylvania (Berks County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 12, 1966
- Age
- 33
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
11 names on the Wall carry the date January 12, 1966. In January 1966, 401 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 58 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 4E, Line 66
- RAYMOND EARL BROWNLance Corporal · January 12, 1966
- CARSON EARL HAIRELance Corporal · January 12, 1966
- RICHARD EARL HARPERSpecialist Four · January 12, 1966
- LEON BOYD SMITH IICaptain · January 12, 1966
Same unit, same day
- JAIME IRIZARRY-PEREZStaff Sergeant · Panel 4E, Line 67
- ROBERT LEROY KILLABREWStaff Sergeant · Panel 4E, Line 67
From Hamburg
- RICHARD LOY ETCHBERGERChief Master Sergeant · March 11, 1968
- JACKIE RALPH SELTZERSergeant · May 12, 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.