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Father Vincent Capodanno
From the Staten Island Advance, March 5, 2000, p. B6, reviewing The Grunt Padre, by the Rev. Daniel L. Mode, CMJ Marian Publishers:
On September 4, 1967, "Father Capodanno, wounded earlier in the engagement, was warned an enemy machine gunner was lurking nearby. Characteristically, the Roman Catholic priest dashed to the assistance of the [wounded medical] corpsman and put himself between the gunner and the bleeding Marine. The gunner opened up. Father Capodanno received 27 wounds to his back, neck and head. He died on the spot.
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"The youngest of nine children, the Elm Park native and Curtis High school grad" earned a Medal of Honor, the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry with Silver Star, the Navy Bronze Star, and the Purple Heart.
Angel Mendez
Please see the page about him at http://www.virtualwall.org/dm/MendezAx01a.htm.
Vietnam Casualties
From National Archives and Records Administration
Center for Electronic Records
Note:Hometown, which was used to pull the names out, was not specified beyond "New York, NY."
Hence you will find, say, Manhattanites among Staten Islanders here.
U.S. Military Personnel Who Died (Including Missing and Captured Declared Dead) as a result of the Vietnam conflict,
1957-1995
Additions/Corrections
Arthur (Artie) Welker REINHARDT (10 Nov 1946 - 02 Sep 1967), of Bloomingdale Avenue,
died in the Vietnam War.His parents Herman and Hilda operated the Neighbor bar and restaurant at 514 Bloomingdale.
Information provided by his cousin Shari Lee Hartman kalilee at yahoo dot com.
Robert BECKMAN, a native of Staten Island, was also killed in Vietnam. He was a graduate of Curtis High School
in 54 or 55 and was serving his second tour. First tour was as Marine enlisted and second tour was asArmy officer.
Information provided by pierc14 at ibm dot net.
Another source:
NARA | Research Room | Vietnam Conflict Casualty list: New York, Sorted by Town Look for town of New York
State-level Lists of Casualties from the Korean Conflict (1951-1957)
State-level Lists of Casualties from the Vietnam Conflict (1957-)
You can access, online, state-level casualty lists for the Korean
Conflict, sorted either
alphabetically by last name (pdf).
[Janet's note: This is the entire state.]
You can also access, online, state level casualty lists for the Vietnam Conflict, sorted either
alphabetically by last name (pdf).
[Janet's note: This is the entire state.]
The National Archives and Records Administration has custody of two
data files in the Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense (Record Group 330). They
contain records of U.S. military casualties from the Korean and Vietnam conflicts. The records in the
Korean Conflict Casualty File are for persons who died as a result of hostilities in Korea, 1950-57,
including those who died while missing or captured. The Combat Area Casualties Current File includes
final records for persons who died 1957-1995, as a result of either a hostile or nonhostile causes in the
Southeast Asia Combat Area, including those who died while missing or captured.
The Center for Electronic Records has
prepared state casualty lists by creating extracts from the data files. Each state list
incorporates selected data elements for all deceased casualties whose state "home of record," as
identified by the serviceman or woman upon last entrance into military service, was that state.
"Home of record" does not necessarily refer to the place of birth, residence of next of kin, place of
longest residence, or other common uses of the term "hometown." In the Korean data file place of
"home of record" for Army casualties is by county, while for Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps casualties,
it is by city/town. In the Vietnam-era data file place of "home of record" is city/town for all services.
The state lists include the following data for each casualty: name, rank or grade, branch of
service, home of record, date of death, date of birth (Vietnam only), category of casualty. The state lists
may be ordered in either of two formats: alphabetically by last name; or, alphabetically by
"home of record." The charge for each state list is $4.50, with a minimum charge for mail orders of
$10.00. In addition, full printouts or machine-readable tape copies of complete records from these data files
are also available for a cost-recovery fee.
If you would like to purchase a paper copy of a state-level casualty list, please contact
the Center for Electronic Records. All requests must be prepaid. Checks should be made payable to the
National Archives Trust Fund. Please send requests, taking care to specify the type of list(s) needed and the state(s) of interest,
along with payment to the Center for Electronic Records, The National Archives at College Park,
8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001. You can also contact the Division at:
(301) 713-6645, or via E-mail at cer at nara dot gov
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