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RODNEY ARTHUR ALFANO
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
September 20, 1944 – February 2, 1968
Service recordRodney Arthur Alfano, of Malden, Massachusetts, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on February 2, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 36E, Line 64 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36E · Line 64
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
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 SIGNAL BDE
- Born
- September 20, 1944
- Home of record
- Malden, Massachusetts (Middlesex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 2, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
130 names on the Wall carry the date February 2, 1968; 38 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 SIGNAL BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 21 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. 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 36E, Line 64
- CHARLES LEROY ADKINSSergeant First Class · February 2, 1968
- KENNETH JOHN AINSWORTHSpecialist Five · February 2, 1968
- DONALD WILLIAM ALLEN JRSpecialist Four · February 2, 1968
- WILLIE JAMES ANGUSSergeant · February 2, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ALBERT LEON BETTSSpecialist Five · Panel 36E, Line 65
- LEANDRO GARCIAPrivate First Class · Panel 36E, Line 71
- RICHARD EDWARD GIDEONSpecialist Four · Panel 36E, Line 72
- LEON FAIRDEN HUBERSpecialist Four · Panel 36E, Line 74
- STEVEN LEON RANEYSpecialist Four · Panel 36E, Line 83
- JOSEPH MICHAEL RODRIGUESSpecialist Four · Panel 36E, Line 84
From Malden
- JOHN F WADENPrivate First Class · November 21, 1966
- CHARLES WILLIAM ROBERTSONCaptain · January 9, 1967
- PETER MICHAEL SULLIVANPrivate First Class · February 8, 1967
- JOHN RICHARD MEUSEPrivate First Class · May 3, 1967
- EDWIN JAMES CASALETTOStaff Sergeant · May 29, 1967
- RAYMOND ALBERT GIGNACMaster Sergeant · January 19, 1968
- SAMUEL JAMES RUMSON JRPrivate First Class · March 8, 1968
- DAVID EDWARD GREGOIRELance Corporal · March 20, 1968
- WILLIAM JOSE SHORTSLEEVESSpecialist Four · March 25, 1968
- WILLIAM PAUL HURLEY JRMajor · March 29, 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.