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JOSEPH DAVID FRANCOLINI
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
February 5, 1943 – March 22, 1967
Service recordJoseph David Francolini, of Ansonia, Connecticut, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 22, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 18
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
- Radio Operator (05B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- February 5, 1943
- Home of record
- Ansonia, Connecticut (New Haven County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 22, 1967
- Age
- 24
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
53 names on the Wall carry the date March 22, 1967. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 17E, Line 18
- JAMES LARRY EVANSFirst Lieutenant · March 22, 1967
- CHARLES EUGENE FLETCHERSpecialist Four · March 22, 1967
- FRANK GRANATOPrivate First Class · March 22, 1967
- RALPH GRAYPrivate First Class · March 22, 1967
Same unit, same day
- FREDERICK GEORGE WHEELERSergeant First Class · Panel 17E, Line 26
From Ansonia
- ELMO MARINELLIPrivate First Class · March 12, 1967
- DANIEL WILLIAM FOSTERSpecialist Four · November 12, 1967
- JAMES JOSEPH WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · July 2, 1968
- MICHAEL JOSEPH FOYCorporal · November 3, 1968
- EDWARD MICHAEL TYSZKASpecialist Four · January 11, 1969
- RAYMOND SUAREZ JRLieutenant Colonel · February 23, 1969
- RONALD A ASHECaptain · July 30, 1972
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.