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JOSEPH WILLIAM DEROSA
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 25, 1947 – April 14, 1967
Service recordJoseph William Derosa, of Deerfield, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 14, 1967, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 25 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 25
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- January 25, 1947
- Home of record
- Deerfield, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 14, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
13 names on the Wall carry the date April 14, 1967; six of them were lost in Long An Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 61 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 18E, Line 25
- MORRIS BOWDOIN WITTCaptain · April 13, 1967
- ROBERT ANTHONY CHAPPSergeant · April 14, 1967
- JAMES RICHARD CLIFCORNPrivate First Class · April 14, 1967
- STEFFAN MICHAEL FREDSTILance Corporal · April 14, 1967
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT EARL MCKEEPrivate First Class · Panel 18E, Line 27
From Deerfield
- FRANZ JOSEPH KOLBECKPrivate First Class · March 4, 1966
- WILLIAM GREGORY LANDONPrivate First Class · May 26, 1967
- ROBERT KITTRIDGE VARICKSpecialist Four · April 18, 1968
- ROGER ZIMMERMANStaff Sergeant · May 10, 1968
- TIMOTHY PATRICK MCGUIRELance Corporal · May 27, 1968
- RALPH LEIGH BLAUVELTPrivate First Class · January 31, 1969
- ALLEN EDWIN OLSONSpecialist Five · February 20, 1969
- WILLIAM ERIC SCHAEFERPrivate First Class · May 12, 1969
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.