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JOSEPH MANUEL ARAGON
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
March 19, 1930 – April 18, 1967
Service recordJoseph Manuel Aragon, of Phoenix, Arizona, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 18, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 37. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 44 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 44
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- March 19, 1930
- Home of record
- Phoenix, Arizona (Maricopa County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 18, 1967
- Age
- 37
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
13 names on the Wall carry the date April 18, 1967; two of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 31 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 44
- THOMAS WESTON JRPrivate First Class · April 17, 1967
- RONALD DWIGHT BRUCESpecialist Four · April 18, 1967
- LEROY BUFORDSergeant · April 18, 1967
- CHARLES CURTIS CLENDENENSpecialist Four · April 18, 1967
Same unit, same day
- LEROY BUFORDSergeant · Panel 18E, Line 44
From Phoenix
- DURWARD DEAN GOSNEYMajor · October 7, 1964
- CHARLES ALVA DALEMajor · June 9, 1965
- WILBURN DANIEL FELKINSCorporal · July 30, 1965
- LEE E ANDERSONSergeant · September 19, 1965
- DERRELL BLACKBUR JEFFORDSColonel · December 24, 1965
- JOHNNY HOWARD GODFREYCaptain · January 11, 1966
- GEORGE A HOAGLAND IIIStaff Sergeant · January 29, 1966
- JACK LANDEN HIMESPrivate First Class · February 26, 1966
- ROY JOHN HIGGINS JRCorporal · March 5, 1966
- DARRELL LEE JOHNSONPrivate First Class · March 5, 1966
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.