The Wall › Panel 60W › Connecticut › Joseph John Grillo JR
JOSEPH JOHN GRILLO JR
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
March 18, 1949 – June 4, 1968
Service recordJoseph John Grillo JR, of Norwich, Connecticut, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 4, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 60W, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 60W · Line 9
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.
Remember
Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.
Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- March 18, 1949
- Home of record
- Norwich, Connecticut (New London County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 4, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date June 4, 1968; 11 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 60W, Line 9
- MARCIAL BONDOC GARCIALance Corporal · June 4, 1968
- JEROME E GRUNEWALDPrivate First Class · June 4, 1968
- DARL KENNETH MCDORMANCorporal · June 4, 1968
- AMELIO NINOCorporal · June 4, 1968
From Norwich
- JAMES WILLIAM MCNEELYCaptain · November 27, 1965
- FRANCIS CHARLES DONOHUEPrivate First Class · March 1, 1967
- HAROLD RICHARD NIELSENCorporal · July 21, 1967
- DAVID VAUTOURLance Corporal · August 16, 1967
- ALTON BROWNING SEBASTIANSpecialist Four · February 5, 1968
- THOMAS EDWARD DONOVANPrivate First Class · March 23, 1968
- AARON LIEB ROSENSTREICHSpecialist Four · May 11, 1969
- WILLIAM LINCOLN MARCYSergeant · May 20, 1969
- ROBERT LOUIS HOWARDSergeant · June 10, 1969
- ROBERT LEE PENDERGASTSergeant · April 13, 1970
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.