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JOSEPH HENRY DOWNING JR
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
November 6, 1930 – February 10, 1968
Service recordJoseph Henry Downing JR, of Washington, North Carolina, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on February 10, 1968, in Chuong Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 37. His name is inscribed on Panel 38E, Line 67 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38E · Line 67
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- November 6, 1930
- Home of record
- Washington, North Carolina (Beaufort County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 10, 1968
- Age
- 37
- Province
- Chuong Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
54 names on the Wall carry the date February 10, 1968; he was the only one lost in Chuong Thien Province that day. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 33 of its members that month.
He died in Chuong Thien 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.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 38E, Line 67
- KENNETH LEE DEVORSergeant · February 10, 1968
- THOMAS EARL DOBRINSKASecond Lieutenant · February 10, 1968
- GERALD THOMAS GALLAGHERPrivate First Class · February 10, 1968
- ROBERT ROGER GRAYSpecialist Four · February 10, 1968
Same unit, same day
- MICHAEL JOHN RAMBERGSergeant · Panel 38E, Line 71
- CHARLES WOODSergeant First Class · Panel 38E, Line 74
From Washington
- GARY HOYT LEARYPrivate First Class · April 14, 1968
- PAUL MARION NANCE JRSergeant · May 1, 1968
- JAMES LEROY BROWNLance Corporal · July 12, 1968
- CARL FREDERICK HODGES JRCorporal · July 24, 1968
- WARREN LEE BEACHAMCorporal · March 2, 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.