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JOSEPH VIEIRA
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 30, 1947 – January 23, 1968
Service recordJoseph Vieira, of Fall River, Massachusetts, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 23, 1968, in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35E · Line 17
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Personnel Specialist (71H)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- January 30, 1947
- Home of record
- Fall River, Massachusetts (Bristol County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 23, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Phuoc Tuy
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Died of other causes
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date January 23, 1968; two of them were lost in Phuoc Tuy Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 35E, Line 17
- DONALD GORDON MACINTOSHSpecialist Four · January 23, 1968
- JOHN T MCCHESNEY IIISpecialist Four · January 23, 1968
- JOSEPH STANLEY MCKINNEYPrivate First Class · January 23, 1968
- THOMAS RICKARD PEARSON JRSecond Lieutenant · January 23, 1968
From Fall River
- DONALD CHARLES JOHANSENFirst Lieutenant · October 20, 1963
- LOUIS PHILLIP GAGNE JRSpecialist Four · September 30, 1966
- DONALD GAGNELance Corporal · November 4, 1966
- RONALD FRANCIS LAKECorporal · April 4, 1967
- RICHARD HENRY ALMEIDALance Corporal · May 3, 1967
- THOMAS ALBERT DEROSIERCaptain · July 7, 1967
- ALFRED JOHN GASPARCorporal · July 29, 1967
- ALBERT WILLARD SANTOSLance Corporal · September 4, 1967
- MICHAEL JOHN MEDEIROSLance Corporal · December 16, 1967
- STEPHEN JOSEPH RAGOCorporal · March 9, 1968
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.