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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Ned Natale Loscuito.

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NED NATALE LOSCUITO

Captain · U.S. Army

November 15, 1938 – August 20, 1965

Service record

Ned Natale Loscuito, of New York, New York, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He died on August 20, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 64 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 2E · Line 64

Position of Panel 2E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Captain (CPT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Ranger, Infantry Unit Commander (81542)
Unit (as recorded)
MACV ADVISORS
Born
November 15, 1938
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 20, 1965
Age
26
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

Three names on the Wall carry the date August 20, 1965. In August 1965, 179 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 2E, Line 64

From New York

All 1370 names from New York →

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.