The Wall › Panel 40E › New York › Nicholas Paul Ligammari
NICHOLAS PAUL LIGAMMARI
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
February 9, 1941 – February 20, 1968
Service recordNicholas Paul Ligammari, of Jamestown, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 20, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 40E, Line 43 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40E · Line 43
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.
Remember
Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.
Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Tactical Wire Operations Specialist (36K)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 FIELD FORCE
- Born
- February 9, 1941
- Home of record
- Jamestown, New York (Chautauqua County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 20, 1968
- Age
- 27
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Vehicle Crash (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
76 names on the Wall carry the date February 20, 1968; four of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 40E, Line 43
- GUY EUGENE LEESergeant · February 20, 1968
- DONALD JAMES LOZANOPrivate First Class · February 20, 1968
- ALBERT MARTINPrivate First Class · February 20, 1968
- DENNIS STEVEN MICHAELPrivate First Class · February 20, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DAVID RUSSELL BOSWORTHSpecialist Four · Panel 40E, Line 36
- JAMES WALKER GUESTPrivate First Class · Panel 40E, Line 40
From Jamestown
- JOHN FRANKLIN BARRYPrivate First Class · May 29, 1966
- ORMAN LEE CROSSLEY JRPrivate First Class · October 7, 1966
- TIMOTHY ARTHUR OLSONSpecialist Four · February 7, 1967
- JOHN THOMAS INTIHARPrivate First Class · April 28, 1968
- FREDERICK ALFRED VERRYSpecialist Four · June 4, 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.