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JOSEPH WALTON
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
May 13, 1919 – January 6, 1969
Service recordJoseph Walton, of Jackson, Mississippi, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 6, 1969, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 49. His name is inscribed on Panel 35W, Line 45 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35W · Line 45
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Multichannel Transmission Systems (31M)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 FIELD FORCE
- Born
- May 13, 1919
- Home of record
- Jackson, Mississippi (Hinds County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 6, 1969
- Age
- 49
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Died of other causes
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date January 6, 1969; he was the only one lost in Pleiku Province that day. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 35W, Line 45
- RICHARD GWINN THUNMANLance Corporal · January 6, 1969
- RALPH LEE VOGELISergeant First Class · January 6, 1969
- CARL WASHINGTONPrivate First Class · January 6, 1969
- PATRICK DEWEY BALLEWLance Corporal · January 7, 1969
From Jackson
- JOHNNY CRAWFORD SANDERSMaster Sergeant · December 25, 1963
- BYRON HUGH CROTWELLStaff Sergeant · January 13, 1966
- ANDREW L HENRYPrivate First Class · January 14, 1966
- JAMES ALBERT WOODCorporal · March 25, 1966
- JOHN DANIEL ROECKLPrivate First Class · August 2, 1966
- RICHARD A WALTMANPrivate First Class · August 15, 1966
- WILLIAM DEWITT PERKINS JRChief Warrant Officer 2 · August 27, 1966
- JAMES PETER NARD IIILance Corporal · September 18, 1966
- DONAIL MARTINPetty Officer Third Class · November 28, 1966
- TOMMIE LEE MOONEYPrivate First Class · December 11, 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.