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PHILIP M CIRILLO
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 27, 1944 – January 20, 1968
Service recordPhilip M Cirillo, of Herkimer, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 20, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 34E, Line 84 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34E · Line 84
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- August 27, 1944
- Home of record
- Herkimer, New York (Herkimer County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 20, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
57 names on the Wall carry the date January 20, 1968; seven of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 69 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 34E, Line 84
- WILLIAM STEVE CALHOUNPrivate First Class · January 20, 1968
- RONALD GATES CAMPBELLSpecialist Five · January 20, 1968
- JAMES ALFRED COLLINSPrivate First Class · January 20, 1968
- DANIEL P MCLAUGHLIN JRSergeant · January 20, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RONALD LEE SANDLINCorporal · Panel 34E, Line 92
From Herkimer
- GORDON RICHARD WITTMANStaff Sergeant · January 8, 1966
- RICHARD FRANCIS GRAHAMPrivate First Class · March 27, 1966
- RONALD KELVIN MOOREPrivate First Class · November 4, 1968
- BRIAN HARRY BURDICKPrivate First Class · December 19, 1968
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.