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JOSEPH PETER JURGELLA
Petty Officer First Class · U.S. Navy
April 22, 1932 – October 25, 1970
Service recordJoseph Peter Jurgella, of Stevens Point, Wisconsin, served as a Petty Officer First Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on October 25, 1970, in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, at age 38. His name is inscribed on Panel 6W, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6W · Line 22
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer First Class (PO1)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Quartermaster (QM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- April 22, 1932
- Home of record
- Stevens Point, Wisconsin (Portage County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 25, 1970
- Age
- 38
- Province
- Phuoc Tuy
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Heart Related
Context · from the records
What was happening
Ten names on the Wall carry the date October 25, 1970; he was the only one lost in Phuoc Tuy Province that day. In October 1970, 318 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 6W, Line 22
- ROBERT M SHUPTRINESpecialist Five · October 25, 1970
- PETER PAUL BOHNWAGNERSergeant · October 26, 1970
- JOSEPH BORRUSO JRPrivate First Class · October 26, 1970
- DONALD RICHARD COOKChief Warrant Officer 2 · October 26, 1970
From Stevens Point
- GERALD JOSEPH BANNACHSergeant First Class · September 24, 1966
- THOMAS HARRY TREBATOSKIAirman First Class · October 3, 1966
- GEORGE THOMAS MURRAYPlatoon Sergeant · June 17, 1967
- GERALD KROPIDLOWSKILance Corporal · November 2, 1967
- ROBERT GEORGE ZINKPrivate First Class · June 19, 1968
- DAVID STANLEY KOSSOWSKISpecialist Five · July 30, 1968
- KENNETH JAMES GARSKISergeant · March 28, 1970
- CLARENCE MYRON SUCHONCorporal · March 22, 1971
- JOHN ANTHONY JELICHChief Warrant Officer 2 · April 1, 1972
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.