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JOSEPH EDWARD TAMAGNINI
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
July 10, 1946 – June 15, 1968
Service recordJoseph Edward Tamagnini, of Edison, New Jersey, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on June 15, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 57W, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 57W · Line 32
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 BN 27 MAR 1 MARDIV
- Born
- July 10, 1946
- Home of record
- Edison, New Jersey (Middlesex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 15, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
60 names on the Wall carry the date June 15, 1968; 23 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 BN 27 MAR 1 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 57W, Line 32
- JAMES EDWARD SULLINGERCorporal · June 15, 1968
- NAPOLEON ENOCH TALIAFERROPrivate First Class · June 15, 1968
- JEFFERY ALLEN THIBAULTPrivate First Class · June 15, 1968
- NATHANIEL THOMASPrivate First Class · June 15, 1968
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS ESTON GREGORYHospitalman · Panel 57W, Line 26
From Edison
- WILLIAM SHORTTLance Corporal · March 2, 1967
- RONALD MICHAEL MAYERCIKCaptain · November 24, 1967
- MICHAEL PETER PAVLOCAK JRPrivate First Class · April 15, 1968
- EDWARD HOWARD MEEKER JRPrivate First Class · June 18, 1968
- JOSEPH LOUIS JACKSONCorporal · September 19, 1968
- HENRY JAMESPrivate First Class · October 10, 1968
- JOSEPH PETER COLASURDOSpecialist Four · January 3, 1969
- WILLIAM PHILIP GOODINGSergeant · August 17, 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.