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WILLIAM WARREN DINIRO
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 19, 1948 – March 26, 1968
Service recordWilliam Warren Diniro, of Selden, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 26, 1968, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 46E, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46E · Line 32
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Born
- January 19, 1948
- Home of record
- Selden, New York (Suffolk County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 26, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
87 names on the Wall carry the date March 26, 1968. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in South Vietnam while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 46E, Line 32
- MICHAEL ANDREW FAYSpecialist Five · March 26, 1968
- WAYNE JAMES FIELDINGHospitalman · March 26, 1968
- DONALD CHARLES FOUSTSpecialist Five · March 26, 1968
- EARL WAYNE FRYEPrivate First Class · March 26, 1968
- JOHNNY EDWARD GANTTSergeant · March 26, 1968
From Selden
- ANTHONY MARIO ORLANDOLance Corporal · March 5, 1967
- LOUIS PHILLIP MERINOPrivate First Class · March 10, 1967
- DAMON LIGOURI RITCHIECorporal · January 31, 1968
- JOHN MONROE JONES JRSergeant · January 28, 1970
- RUSSELL GEORGE AHRENSSpecialist Five · March 18, 1971
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.