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JOSEPH MACON
Private First Class · U.S. Army
December 12, 1946 – September 12, 1968
Service recordJoseph Macon, of Raleigh, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 12, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 44W, Line 39 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44W · Line 39
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
- Field Artillery Basic (13A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- December 12, 1946
- Home of record
- Raleigh, North Carolina (Wake County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 12, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
50 names on the Wall carry the date September 12, 1968; six of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 80 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 44W, Line 39
- LARRY WAYNE JANSENSpecialist Four · September 12, 1968
- KENNETH LEROY MARTINPrivate First Class · September 12, 1968
- RONALD STEVEN MARTINPrivate First Class · September 12, 1968
- WALTER WILLIAM MCGINNChief Petty Officer · September 12, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DONALD RAY BUTLERCorporal · Panel 44W, Line 35
- DAVID COURTNEY DAHLINSergeant · Panel 44W, Line 36
- LEONARD JOSEPH LIPAROTOPrivate First Class · Panel 44W, Line 38
- KENNETH ALBERT WEDMANSpecialist Five · Panel 44W, Line 43
From Raleigh
- WILLIAM EDWARD DAVIS JRSecond Lieutenant · December 10, 1965
- CHARLES EDWARD ALSTONPrivate First Class · January 25, 1966
- LEE ARTHUR MOORE JRSpecialist Four · March 30, 1966
- EDWARD SHEPHERDPlatoon Sergeant · May 21, 1966
- JOHN B DAVIS IIISpecialist Four · July 7, 1966
- WAYLAND DUNN JRSergeant · August 14, 1966
- LEON GORDON CHADWICK IIICaptain · November 14, 1966
- JAMES EDWARD OXLEYFirst Lieutenant · November 26, 1966
- SAMUEL ADAMS JAMES JRFirst Lieutenant · December 4, 1966
- DONALD FRANK RHODESPrivate · January 7, 1967
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.