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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Vincent Carmen Mauro JR.

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VINCENT CARMEN MAURO JR

Corporal · U.S. Army

December 4, 1948 – March 20, 1971

Service record

Vincent Carmen Mauro JR, of Trenton, New Jersey, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on March 20, 1971, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 61 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 4W · Line 61

Position of Panel 4W 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
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
AMERICAL DIV
Born
December 4, 1948
Home of record
Trenton, New Jersey (Mercer County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 20, 1971
Age
22
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

17 names on the Wall carry the date March 20, 1971; six of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1971, 429 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 50 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 4W, Line 61

From Trenton

All 51 names from Trenton →

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.