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JOSEPH SCOTT BURGETT
Second Lieutenant · U.S. Army
December 3, 1946 – February 5, 1968
Service recordJoseph Scott Burgett, of Cahokia, Illinois, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on February 5, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 37E, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37E · Line 32
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. Army
- Rank
- Second Lieutenant (2LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- December 3, 1946
- Home of record
- Cahokia, Illinois (St Clair County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 5, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
83 names on the Wall carry the date February 5, 1968; seven of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 42 of its members that month.
He died in Gia Dinh Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 37E, Line 32
- WILLIAM JOSEPH ANDERSONPrivate First Class · February 5, 1968
- NORRIS LEE BRENDENCorporal · February 5, 1968
- LARRY WAYNE BROWNCorporal · February 5, 1968
- ROBERT WAYNE CAMPBELLPrivate First Class · February 5, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RICHARD LORRAINE KUNTZSpecialist Four · Panel 37E, Line 38
From Cahokia
- CARL DWAYNE BUCKLEYPrivate First Class · April 11, 1966
- JAMES WALTER ARMSCorporal · October 8, 1967
- GLENN EDWIN DAVISPrivate First Class · May 5, 1968
- DONALD GENE HEDGECOCKSpecialist Four · November 6, 1969
- HAROLD EUGENE COWANCorporal · June 23, 1970
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.