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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Vincent James Caravello.

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VINCENT JAMES CARAVELLO

Private First Class · U.S. Army

July 4, 1949 – May 21, 1968

Service record

Vincent James Caravello, of New York, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 21, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 64E, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 64E · Line 12

Position of Panel 64E 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
July 4, 1949
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 21, 1968
Age
18
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

53 names on the Wall carry the date May 21, 1968; 17 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 151 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 64E, Line 12

Same unit, same day

From New York

All 1370 names from New York →

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.