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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Peter Charles Syintsakos.

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PETER CHARLES SYINTSAKOS

Sergeant · U.S. Army

December 14, 1947 – July 14, 1967

Service record

Peter Charles Syintsakos, of Providence, Rhode Island, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on July 14, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 72 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 23E · Line 72

Position of Panel 23E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Administrative Specialist (71L)
Unit (as recorded)
HHC ENG CMD USARV
Born
December 14, 1947
Home of record
Providence, Rhode Island (Providence County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 14, 1967
Age
19
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

22 names on the Wall carry the date July 14, 1967. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 23E, Line 72

From Providence

All 45 names from Providence →

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.