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JOSEPH EUGENE SINTONI
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 12, 1945 – March 27, 1968
Service recordJoseph Eugene Sintoni, of Sagamore, Massachusetts, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 27, 1968, in Go Cong Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 46E, Line 50 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46E · Line 50
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- November 12, 1945
- Home of record
- Sagamore, Massachusetts (Barnstable County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 27, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Go Cong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date March 27, 1968; he was the only one lost in Go Cong Province that day. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 101 of its members that month.
He died in Go Cong Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 46E, Line 50
- CARL ALVIN SHUTT JRSpecialist Four · March 27, 1968
- IRWIN ROSS SOBELPrivate First Class · March 27, 1968
- EXTRUMBERTO SOLISSpecialist Four · March 27, 1968
- MACWAYNE SPEAKSCaptain · March 27, 1968
- FREDRIC BRUCE DAVISSpecialist Four · January 14, 1973
Same unit, same day
- WAYNE WILLIAM PEARCESergeant First Class · Panel 46E, Line 49
- MICHAEL CANDIDO RUSSOPrivate First Class · Panel 46E, Line 49
- EXTRUMBERTO SOLISSpecialist Four · Panel 46E, Line 50
- JAMES DAVIS WHITESergeant · Panel 46E, Line 51
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.