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PETER VINCENT BLAZONIS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
September 9, 1948 – June 18, 1969
Service recordPeter Vincent Blazonis, of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 18, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 22W, Line 72 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 22W · Line 72
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)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- September 9, 1948
- Home of record
- Chelmsford, Massachusetts (Middlesex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 18, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
61 names on the Wall carry the date June 18, 1969; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 92 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 22W, Line 72
- MICHAEL DAVID BOYERPrivate First Class · June 18, 1969
- JAMES PATRICK BRADYCorporal · June 18, 1969
- GEORGE ROBERT BROWNINGSpecialist Four · June 18, 1969
- WILLIAM DAVIDSON BURKE JRLance Corporal · June 18, 1969
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT MATHEW FEGANSergeant First Class · Panel 22W, Line 76
From Chelmsford
- JOHN FRANCIS BETTENCOURTPrivate First Class · November 16, 1967
- KENNETH ROCKWELL HUGHESCaptain · March 28, 1969
- JAMES ALDEN DOUGHTYPrivate First Class · August 28, 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.