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JOSEPH NICK DAMBRA
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 10, 1947 – May 9, 1968
Service recordJoseph Nick Dambra, of Franklin Square, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 9, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 57E, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 57E · Line 18
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- May 10, 1947
- Home of record
- Franklin Square, New York (Nassau County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 9, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
127 names on the Wall carry the date May 9, 1968; 17 of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 38 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 57E, Line 18
- JAMES VINCENT ANTOLINISergeant · May 9, 1968
- WINFORD R CRABBSpecialist Four · May 9, 1968
- THOMAS WILLIAM CRANFORDPrivate First Class · May 9, 1968
- GEORGE W DARNELL JRSpecialist Four · May 9, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JOHN MILLARD SCHNEIDERSergeant · Panel 57E, Line 32
- LARRY LEE TOLLIVERSpecialist Four · Panel 57E, Line 34
From Franklin Square
- ALBERT CHARLES DOODYSecond Lieutenant · September 9, 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.