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JULIUS JOSEPH VALINT JR
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
September 10, 1945 – March 21, 1966
Service recordJulius Joseph Valint JR, of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 21, 1966, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 6E, Line 36 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6E · Line 36
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Lance Corporal (LCPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Assaultman (0351)
- Unit (as recorded)
- L CO 3 BN 7 MAR 3 MARDIV
- Born
- September 10, 1945
- Home of record
- Uniontown, Pennsylvania (Multiple County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 21, 1966
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date March 21, 1966; 35 of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In March 1966, 564 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “L CO 3 BN 7 MAR 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 6E, Line 36
- DANIEL TIENDACorporal · March 21, 1966
- WILLIAM GLENN WADELance Corporal · March 21, 1966
- BRUCE LAMAR WATKINSPrivate First Class · March 21, 1966
- HAROLD WENDELL WILSONLance Corporal · March 21, 1966
Same unit, same day
- ALLAN LADD ELMOREPrivate First Class · Panel 6E, Line 30
- THOMAS BERNARD FLOODLance Corporal · Panel 6E, Line 30
- WILLIAM GLENN WADELance Corporal · Panel 6E, Line 36
From Uniontown
- JOSEPH GEORGE EVANS JRPrivate First Class · March 5, 1966
- BARRY ALAN ZAVISLANCaptain · March 6, 1967
- EARL FREDERICK BURKESergeant First Class · February 7, 1968
- JAMES ROBERT MCDONOUGHSpecialist Five · May 7, 1968
- DANIEL EUGENE FIKELance Corporal · October 18, 1968
- SAMUEL DALE SHIMEKSpecialist Four · December 9, 1968
- LOUIS GERARD WHEELERSergeant · March 16, 1969
- HORACE LEE WARDELLPrivate · August 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.