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JULIO KANEKO
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
July 27, 1935 – March 17, 1967
Service recordJulio Kaneko, of Lemon Grove, California, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 17, 1967, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 101 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16E · Line 101
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
- Heavy Anti-Armor Weapons Infantryman (11H)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- July 27, 1935
- Home of record
- Lemon Grove, California (San Diego County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 17, 1967
- Age
- 31
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date March 17, 1967; three of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 145 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 16E, Line 101
- GENE WILLIAM GOEDENLieutenant (junior grade) · March 17, 1967
- DONALD ORTHEL GRIFFINSergeant · March 17, 1967
- PAUL CARLING HUNTERSpecialist Four · March 17, 1967
- WAYNE LAMONT JORDANCorporal · March 17, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JERRY MICHAEL CHUNGESSpecialist Four · Panel 16E, Line 100
- OTTO DALE TUCKERPrivate First Class · Panel 16E, Line 103
From Lemon Grove
- ROBERT DARRELL CALHOUNLance Corporal · February 28, 1969
- PAUL FREDERICK WEBERSergeant · June 2, 1969
- FRANK ANTHONY PECORAROSpecialist Four · January 20, 1970
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.