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JOSEPH STANLEY VESELY JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
April 22, 1931 – June 19, 1966
Service recordJoseph Stanley Vesely JR, of Akron, Ohio, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 19, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 35. His name is inscribed on Panel 8E, Line 63 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 8E · Line 63
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- April 22, 1931
- Home of record
- Akron, Ohio (Summit County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 19, 1966
- Age
- 35
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
Eight names on the Wall carry the date June 19, 1966. In June 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 73 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 8E, Line 63
- ROY CLIFFORD MCEWENCorporal · June 19, 1966
- CHARLES EDWARD MCRAESpecialist Four · June 19, 1966
- KENNETH RAY TEMPLESCorporal · June 19, 1966
- ERNEST ALSTON JRPrivate First Class · June 20, 1966
Same unit, same day
- GARRY LEE BURGESSSpecialist Four · Panel 8E, Line 62
- VINCENT GERALD ST MOELLERPrivate First Class · Panel 8E, Line 62
From Akron
- PAUL R HELTSLEY IIIPrivate First Class · July 17, 1964
- ANDREW MILLARD KEACaptain · May 16, 1965
- GEORGE HOWARD FRAZEE JRSergeant · May 28, 1965
- FRANK WILLARD WILSONCorporal · June 6, 1965
- ROBERT DUANE STEPANOVSpecialist Four · July 5, 1965
- RICHARD WEBSTERSpecialist Four · January 29, 1966
- WAYNE HULEN ROWLANDPrivate First Class · April 17, 1966
- RICHARD DOUGLAS HOGARTHFirst Lieutenant · May 6, 1966
- JAMES QUINEL AYDLETTFirst Lieutenant · July 11, 1966
- CLIFFORD LEE CARPENTERPrivate First Class · July 20, 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.