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JOSEPH PAUL ANTONELLI
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 11, 1949 – January 14, 1970
Service recordJoseph Paul Antonelli, of Bobtown, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 14, 1970, in Chau Doc Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 14W, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 14W · Line 32
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Field Illumination Crewman (17E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- May 11, 1949
- Home of record
- Bobtown, Pennsylvania (Greene County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 14, 1970
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Chau Doc
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date January 14, 1970; two of them were lost in Chau Doc Province. In January 1970, 529 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 26 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 14W, Line 32
- HERMINIO AMELIO BONILLACorporal · January 14, 1970
- LEE ALEXANDER CONNERSSergeant · January 14, 1970
- ROBERT DALE FARNHAMSergeant · January 14, 1970
- WILLIAM GREGORY LITTLECorporal · January 14, 1970
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT DALE FARNHAMSergeant · Panel 14W, Line 32
- HENRY LUSCIOUS TAYLORSpecialist Four · Panel 14W, Line 34
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.