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JULIUS PHILIP PIGNATARO
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 11, 1949 – March 28, 1969
Service recordJulius Philip Pignataro, of Ozone Park, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 28, 1969, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 74 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28W · Line 74
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- August 11, 1949
- Home of record
- Ozone Park, New York (Queens County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 28, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
62 names on the Wall carry the date March 28, 1969; he was the only one lost in Kon Tum Province that day. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 174 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 28W, Line 74
- WILOFARD A MCCLAIN IIFirst Lieutenant · March 28, 1969
- LAWRENCE DAVID PERUSOPetty Officer Third Class · March 28, 1969
- GARY JOE POLLOCKSergeant · March 28, 1969
- ROBERT EARL PUGHPrivate First Class · March 28, 1969
From Ozone Park
- ANTHONY CAPRIGLIONEPrivate First Class · July 2, 1966
- ALFRED GEORGE KIRCHERStaff Sergeant · May 25, 1967
- GASPER ORLANDOPrivate First Class · May 1, 1968
- TERRENCE EDWIN BUTLERFirst Lieutenant · August 19, 1968
- ANDREW JAMES TOPORCER JRCorporal · November 28, 1968
- SIGMOND MICHAEL SIKORSKISpecialist Four · March 12, 1969
- ROSS ANGELO TROVATOSpecialist Four · June 27, 1971
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.