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JUAN JOSE NAZARIO
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 6, 1947 – March 18, 1968
Service recordJuan Jose Nazario, of Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 18, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 45E, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45E · Line 26
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- May 6, 1947
- Home of record
- Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico (Aguas Buenas County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 18, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
82 names on the Wall carry the date March 18, 1968; 18 of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 23 of its members that month.
He died in Bình Dương Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 45E, Line 26
- DENNIS FRANCIS MOORESpecialist Five · March 18, 1968
- WILLIAM MURPHYCorporal · March 18, 1968
- ROBERT OBANNON IIISergeant · March 18, 1968
- SYDNEY PARKSPrivate First Class · March 18, 1968
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM ROGER GOUDELOCKSergeant · Panel 45E, Line 22
- CHARLES DANIEL SMITHSergeant · Panel 45E, Line 30
From Aguas Buenas
- ALBERTO PEREZ-VERGARASpecialist Four · March 13, 1966
- JORGE LUIS GUZMAN-PAGANPrivate First Class · January 26, 1969
- VICENTE ROSA-URBINASergeant First Class · May 6, 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.