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JOSEPH PATRICK MCKNIGHT
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 27, 1951 – May 12, 1969
Service recordJoseph Patrick McKnight, of St Paul, Minnesota, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 12, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 25W, Line 79 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25W · Line 79
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Supply Administrative Man - Manual Accounting (3041)
- Born
- January 27, 1951
- Home of record
- St Paul, Minnesota (Ramsey County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 12, 1969
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
170 names on the Wall carry the date May 12, 1969; 39 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 25W, Line 79
- ROY LEE NATIONSPrivate First Class · May 12, 1969
- DAVID RUSSELL NEFFSpecialist Four · May 12, 1969
- JOSEPH ANTHONY NURZYNSKISpecialist Five · May 12, 1969
- LYLE CLINT PALMERSpecialist Five · May 12, 1969
From St Paul
- RAYMOND CHARLES WILDEChief Warrant Officer 2 · January 11, 1963
- DAVID MICHAEL HALBAUERStaff Sergeant · October 13, 1965
- JOHN CALVIN ELZY IIIPrivate First Class · November 16, 1965
- ROBERT E WALDVOGELSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
- ARLIN ROGER JENSENSpecialist Four · November 19, 1965
- JOHN WALTER WILSON JRPrivate First Class · December 10, 1965
- KALE ARLAN SOLBERGPrivate First Class · February 1, 1966
- JOSEPH SAMUEL HERRONPrivate First Class · March 4, 1966
- DAVID JOSEPH KERNPrivate First Class · April 1, 1966
- LAVERN GEORGE REILLYColonel · May 15, 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.