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JOSEPH JAMES BORICK
Private First Class · U.S. Army
April 10, 1948 – April 28, 1967
Service recordJoseph James Borick, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 28, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 105 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 105
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- April 10, 1948
- Home of record
- Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (Luzerne County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 28, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date April 28, 1967; seven of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 61 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 18E, Line 105
- TERRY LYNN YAWNPrivate First Class · April 27, 1967
- DONALD RAYMOND YOUNGPrivate First Class · April 27, 1967
- PAUL JOSEPH BRAUNLance Corporal · April 28, 1967
- FRANKLIN ANGEL CARASColonel · April 28, 1967
Same unit, same day
- TEODORO DAVILAStaff Sergeant · Panel 18E, Line 107
- DANIEL CRAIG GILLESPIESergeant · Panel 18E, Line 107
- JAMES EDWARD GREENLEECorporal · Panel 18E, Line 108
- JULIAN MARINPrivate First Class · Panel 18E, Line 109
- ROBERT HERBERT MILLERSpecialist Four · Panel 18E, Line 110
From Wilkes-Barre
- WAYNE GILMORE SCHWARTZStaff Sergeant · May 15, 1965
- JOHN FRANCIS CONLON IIIMajor · March 4, 1966
- RICHARD MICHAEL CUMMINGSSecond Lieutenant · January 13, 1967
- FRANK JOSEPH SHOVLINPrivate First Class · June 7, 1967
- CHESTER DONALD PAULLSergeant · June 20, 1967
- WILLIAM EDWARD BRUNNPrivate First Class · January 19, 1968
- ROBERT RICHARD PERRINSSpecialist Four · April 4, 1968
- GEORGE BERNARD AYERSCorporal · April 24, 1968
- LAWRENCE JOSEPH MCRAEPrivate First Class · April 30, 1968
- WAYNE BENJAMIN WOLFKEILColonel · August 9, 1968
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.