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A 5th Special Forces Group sergeant teaches Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainees, March 1967.
A 5th Special Forces Group sergeant teaches Civilian Irregular Defense Group trainees, March 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, DASPO, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Raymond Blaise Guarino.

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RAYMOND BLAISE GUARINO

Specialist Five · U.S. Army

August 27, 1943 – March 26, 1967

Service record

Raymond Blaise Guarino, of West Haven, Connecticut, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on March 26, 1967, in Quang Duc Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 51 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 17E · Line 51

Position of Panel 17E 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
Specialist Five (SP5)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Combat Engineer (12B)
Unit (as recorded)
SPECIAL FORCES
Born
August 27, 1943
Home of record
West Haven, Connecticut (New Haven County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 26, 1967
Age
23
Province
Quang Duc
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

40 names on the Wall carry the date March 26, 1967; two of them were lost in Quang Duc Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 14 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 17E, Line 51

Same unit, same day

From West Haven

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.