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WAYNE CARLYLE PISCIOTTA
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 7, 1950 – July 8, 1971
Service recordWayne Carlyle Pisciotta, of Highland Park, New Jersey, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 8, 1971, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 3W, Line 104 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 3W · Line 104
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
- Field Artillery Basic (13A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- AMERICAL DIV
- Born
- December 7, 1950
- Home of record
- Highland Park, New Jersey (Middlesex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 8, 1971
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
Four names on the Wall carry the date July 8, 1971; three of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In July 1971, 118 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 11 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 3W, Line 104
- RONALD EUGENE BEUTLERSpecialist Four · July 8, 1971
- MARION TRACY GRIFFINSpecialist Five · July 8, 1971
- SAMUEL WAYMON MCDANIEL IISpecialist Five · July 8, 1971
- JOHN HENRY MORRIS JRSpecialist Four · July 9, 1971
Same unit, same day
- MARION TRACY GRIFFINSpecialist Five · Panel 3W, Line 104
From Highland Park
- JOSEPH KLEINCorporal · June 5, 1968
- MICHAEL JAMES ROBINSONPrivate · November 13, 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.