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JUAN CARLOS CASTELLANOS
Corporal · U.S. Army
May 5, 1946 – January 19, 1968
Service recordJuan Carlos Castellanos, of New York, New York, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on January 19, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 34E, Line 75 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34E · Line 75
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- May 5, 1946
- Home of record
- New York, New York (Kings County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 19, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date January 19, 1968; five of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 73 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 34E, Line 75
- ROBERT JAMES BLACK JRPrivate First Class · January 19, 1968
- DONALD A COFFINCorporal · January 19, 1968
- CHARLES EDWARD DAVISPrivate First Class · January 19, 1968
- JOSEPH FRANCIS DECROSTASpecialist Four · January 19, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DONALD A COFFINCorporal · Panel 34E, Line 75
- JOSEPH GERWATOWSKISergeant · Panel 34E, Line 76
- ROOSEVELT JONESMaster Sergeant · Panel 34E, Line 78
- JAMES RUSSELL MOOREPrivate First Class · Panel 34E, Line 79
- PATRICK ROBERT WOLFE JRSecond Lieutenant · Panel 34E, Line 83
From New York
- WALTER R MCCARTHY JRCaptain · June 16, 1962
- JOHN HOWARD MCCLEANCaptain · August 16, 1963
- DONALD ALLAN MOLLICONEFirst Lieutenant · December 20, 1963
- VINCENT JOSEPH HICKMANCaptain · January 14, 1964
- MARTIN STOCKFEDERPrivate First Class · July 15, 1964
- ROBERT GEORGE ARMSTRONGFirst Lieutenant · October 24, 1964
- DOMINICK SANSONESergeant First Class · December 10, 1964
- DONALD GILBERT COOKColonel · December 31, 1964
- TERENCE MEREDITH MURPHYLieutenant (junior grade) · April 9, 1965
- ROBERT CARL WISTRANDColonel · May 9, 1965
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.