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JOSEPH LYNWOOD SHREVE JR
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
March 5, 1947 – May 1, 1968
Service recordJoseph Lynwood Shreve JR, of Newark, California, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 1, 1968, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 53E, Line 41 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 53E · Line 41
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- March 5, 1947
- Home of record
- Newark, California (Alameda County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 1, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
85 names on the Wall carry the date May 1, 1968. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 24 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 53E, Line 41
- RICKEY DOVIE SMITHPrivate · May 1, 1968
- EUSEBIO SOLISPrivate · May 1, 1968
- DAVID ALLEN STREMLERSpecialist Four · May 1, 1968
- THOMAS F STROTHERS JRSergeant · May 1, 1968
From Newark
- ROBERT CARL BOYDPrivate First Class · December 22, 1966
- MARTIN WALTER MORENOSpecialist Four · January 5, 1967
- KENNETH ALBERT WEDMANSpecialist Five · September 12, 1968
- ROBERT EUGENE SMITH JRSpecialist Five · December 20, 1968
- PAUL GEORGE TELLESPrivate First Class · January 31, 1969
- VAN HARVEY PEARSONSpecialist Four · February 26, 1969
- RAUL ROY BARRERA JRSpecialist Four · November 24, 1969
- MARK JEFFERY MILLERPrivate First Class · January 26, 1973
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.