Rank: Private First Class
Unit: Air Cavalry Troop, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11B – Infantryman
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart 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: 3-Dec-1950
Hometown: New York, New York
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 12-Mar-1970
Start of tour: 13-Aug-1970
Incident date: 17-Sep-1970
Date of casualty: 17-Sep-1970
Age at death: 19
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Explosive Device. Other explosive device.
John Richard Tamburri Jr was killed while on a combat operation when a booby trap detonated. / On search and clear mission. Detonated hostile booby trap and engaged hostile force in firefight.
Three Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
SSG Walter Wesley Hutton
SP4 Ronald Lester Huxtable
PFC John Richard Tamburri Jr
Location of fatality: Binh Duong, South Vietnam, XT 795 276
Place of interment: Moravian Cemetery, New Dorp, New York, USA
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