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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Vinture Sciarretti.

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VINTURE SCIARRETTI

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

August 4, 1948 – April 1, 1970

Service record

Vinture Sciarretti, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 1, 1970, in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 12W, Line 75 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 12W · Line 75

Position of Panel 12W 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 Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
August 4, 1948
Home of record
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Allegheny County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 1, 1970
Age
21
Province
Phuoc Long
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

70 names on the Wall carry the date April 1, 1970; two of them were lost in Phuoc Long Province. In April 1970, 730 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 78 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 12W, Line 75

Same unit, same day

From Pittsburgh

All 256 names from Pittsburgh →

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.