Rank: Staff Sergeant
Unit: B Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11D – Armor Reconnaissance Specialist
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Regular
Date of birth: 8-Feb-1926
Hometown: Watertown, New York
Marital status: Married to Katherine M. Gentile, two sons, two daughters
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 17-Oct-1944
Start of tour: 5-Aug-1968
Incident date: 26-Mar-1969
Date of casualty: 26-Mar-1969
Age at death: 43
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Unknown. Other causes. Individual was killed while on combat operation when a hostile booby trap detonated. / On reconnaissance in force mission when hit by blast from hostile booby trap.
Location of fatality: Binh Duong, South Vietnam, XT 710 240
Place of interment: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, USA
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