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PETER PAUL BLASKO JR
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
December 14, 1944 – November 8, 1968
Service recordPeter Paul Blasko JR, of Southern Pines, North Carolina, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on November 8, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 39W, Line 36 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39W · 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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Boatswain's Mate (BM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- December 14, 1944
- Home of record
- Southern Pines, North Carolina (Moore County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 8, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date November 8, 1968; five of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 39W, Line 36
- GARY RAY COOPERCorporal · November 8, 1968
- JAMES ALAN COPELANDPrivate First Class · November 8, 1968
- JOSEPH FRANCIS DESMONDPrivate First Class · November 8, 1968
- JAMES ALLEN HARDMANSergeant · November 8, 1968
Same unit, same day
- STEPHEN THOMAS VOLZPetty Officer Third Class · Panel 39W, Line 39
- RICHARD COURTNEY WALLACELieutenant (junior grade) · Panel 39W, Line 39
From Southern Pines
- CLINNIS HARRELL JACKSONPrivate First Class · November 7, 1966
- ERNEST EDWARD ROSSPrivate First Class · November 17, 1966
- PAUL MATTHEW SPENCERLance Corporal · April 18, 1968
- GARY NELSON FRYESergeant · May 19, 1968
- DONALD THOMAS LUTZSergeant First Class · June 13, 1968
- JOEL STEVENS IVEY JRSpecialist Four · November 28, 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.