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JOSEPH DEGENNARO
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
March 28, 1942 – January 25, 1966
Service recordJoseph Degennaro, of Sound Beach, New York, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 25, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 4E, Line 88 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4E · Line 88
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
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Ranger, Operations And Training Staff Officer (G3,a3,s3) (82162)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- March 28, 1942
- Home of record
- Sound Beach, New York (Suffolk County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 25, 1966
- Age
- 23
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
54 names on the Wall carry the date January 25, 1966. In January 1966, 401 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 11 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 4E, Line 88
- PAUL M BELLPrivate First Class · January 25, 1966
- BILLY CLARENCE DEWEESEPrivate First Class · January 25, 1966
- EUGENE DOYCE DOLLARSpecialist Four · January 25, 1966
- DEAN JOSEPH ELICHKOPrivate First Class · January 25, 1966
From Sound Beach
- CHARLES ROBERT PRCHALSpecialist Four · March 29, 1969
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.