United States of AmericaPOW / MIA · Still unaccounted for

U.S. Army · United States

Joseph Paul Nolan Jr.

Captain

1950 – 1972

Vietnam Wall · Panel 01W

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Captain Joseph Paul Nolan Jr. served in the U.S. Army. Joseph served with the 101 AIRBORNE DIV. Joseph served in the Vietnam War and the Cold War. Joseph was 21 years old.

How They Died

Manner Undetermined

Cause Multiple traumatic injuries

Circumstance Missing in action

Place Thua Thien

Service Record

U.S. Army

A CO, 101ST AVN BN, 101ST AVN GROUP, 101ST ABN DIV, USARV

1981: Rotary Wing Aviation Unit Commander

CPT

AIR OBSERVATION PILOT

THUA THIEN

1972

Pay grade O03.

Conflicts

Vietnam War Cold War

Awards & Decorations 5

For service and achievement

Purple Heart

Air Medal

Campaign and service medals

National Defense Service Medal

Vietnam Service Medal

Foreign awards

Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal

Memorials

Vietnam Veterans Memorial Panel 01W · Line 27 cut as JOSEPH P NOLAN Jr

Burial Information

Cemetery National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific

In Our Keeping

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Joseph Paul Nolan Jr.

Captain

U.S. Army

- 1972

101st Aviation Battalion

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