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RAYMOND WARREN DEMEOLA
Sergeant · U.S. Army
January 26, 1948 – May 14, 1969
Service recordRaymond Warren Demeola, of Blauvelt, New York, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 14, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24W · Line 4
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- January 26, 1948
- Home of record
- Blauvelt, New York (Rockland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 14, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
69 names on the Wall carry the date May 14, 1969; ten of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 178 of its members that month.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Hamburger Hill was under way. On Đồng Ấp Bia (Hill 937) in the A Shau Valley (10–20 May 1969), the 101st Airborne Division attacked entrenched North Vietnamese troops for ten days; the soldiers called it “Hamburger Hill.” The heavy losses fed the debate at home over the war’s tactics. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 24W, Line 4
- WILLIAM DANIELS JRCorporal · May 14, 1969
- WILLARD J DUFRESNE JRStaff Sergeant · May 14, 1969
- JOSEPH WARREN FREEMAN JRSpecialist Four · May 14, 1969
- ERIC JOSEPH GRECOSpecialist Four · May 14, 1969
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT ERIC BELTSpecialist Four · Panel 24W, Line 2
- LEONARD BALDOMIR CASTILLOSpecialist Four · Panel 24W, Line 2
- WILLIE JAMES CHAPMANSergeant · Panel 24W, Line 3
- WILLARD J DUFRESNE JRStaff Sergeant · Panel 24W, Line 4
- MICHAEL ALAN HUNTLEYSpecialist Four · Panel 24W, Line 7
- MICHAEL WAYNE MILNERCorporal · Panel 24W, Line 8
- LESLIE LEROY MCCORKLECorporal · Panel 24W, Line 9
- WILLIAM LEWIS MCGOWANSpecialist Four · Panel 24W, Line 9
- LUTHER MORGAN JRSergeant · Panel 24W, Line 9
- DAVID ALAN STIYERSpecialist Five · Panel 24W, Line 13
From Blauvelt
- JAMES EDWARD PARKERStaff Sergeant · June 20, 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.