Guy Paul Guadagno
Specialist 4th Class
C Company
2nd Battalion
5th Cavalry Regiment (Airmobile)
1st Cavalry Division
Entered the Service from: New Jersey
Born: May 10, 1948
Died: March 11, 1967
Buried at: Section J, Site 2927
Beverly National Cemetery
Beverly, New Jersey
Awards: Bronze Star, Purple Heart
Panel 16E, Line 59
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Guy Paul Guadagno
Introduction
Specialist 4th Class Guy Paul Guadagno was born on May 10, 1948 in Providence, Rhode Island.
Specialist 4th Class Guadagno enlisted in the United States Army on July 23, 1965. He received his basic training at Fort Dix, New Jersey. He married a Jersey girl, Margaret Gail Hamblin, of Audubon.
Specialist 4th Class Guadagno’s MOS was 11B10 Infantryman. After serving for a year in Germany, he was designated for duty in Vietnam. After returning home to see his wife and son, he shipped out for Vietnam, where his tour of duty began on February 19, 1967. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment (Airmobile), 1st Cavalry Division. Records are unclear as to whether he was serving with C Company or D Company at the time of his death.
On March 11, 1967 Specialist 4th Class Guadagno was killed in action by small arms fire during the Battle of Phu Ninh, in Binh Dinh province, Vietnam while on a search and destroy mission.
Guy Guadagno was brought home. He was buried at Beverly National Cemetery in Beverly, New Jersey. He was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star. He is memorialized on the Korean and Vietnam Memorial in Audubon, New Jersey.
He is memorialized on Panel 16E, Line 59 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Jersey GI Dies in War
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Family in Audubon
Jersey GI Dies in War
Spec./4 Guy P. Guadagno, 19, husband of Mrs. Margaret G. Guadagno of 35 N. Logan ave., Aubudon [sic], N. J., was killed Saturday in South Vietnam, the Defense Department announced Wednesday.
Guadagno, a native of Providence, R. I., received basic training at Fort Dix, N. J., and then spent a one year tour of duty in Germany. He visited his wife in Aubudon [sic] in late January, seeing his son, Guy Anthony, now 8 months, for the first time.
He went to Vietnam after the leave, and had been attached to the 2d Battalion of the 5th Calvary.
His mother, Mrs. Dorothy Paul, lives in Providence.
Guadagno
Camden Courier-Post —
GUADAGNO — Killed in action in Viet Nam on March 11, 1967, Sp/4 Guy P. Guadagno, husband of Margaret Gail Hamblin Guadagno, of 35 N. Logan Ave., Audubon, N.J. Due notice of funeral will be given through the John A. Healey Funeral Home, 9 White Horse Pike, Haddon Heights, N.J.
G. Guadagno Military Rite Tomorrow
Camden Courier-Post —
High requiem Mass with full military honors for SP/4 Guy P. Guadagno, 19, of 35 N. Logan Avenue, Audubon, will be tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. in St. Aloysius Church, Oaklyn. Friends may call an hour earlier or tonight at the John A. Healey Funeral Home, 9 White Horse Pike, Audubon.
Specialist Guadagno was killed in Vietnam last week. He is survived by his wife, Gail; a son, Guy A.; his mother, Mrs. Dorothy Paul; four sisters and two brothers.
Burial will be in the National Cemetery, Beverly.
Photos
Guy Paul Guadagno — Beverly National Cemetery
Viet War Widow Decries Conflict As ’Senseless’
Camden Courier-Post —
FT. DIX — A young widow, whose husband was killed in combat eight days after he arrived in Vietnam, says she opposes the Southeast Asian war and thinks it is “senseless and wrong.”
Mrs. Guy P. Gaudagno [sic] of Audubon gave her view following U.S. Army ceremonies at Doughboy Field where she received the Bronze Star Medal award presented posthumously for her husband’s valor in combat.
She said she accepted the medal and an Army commendation citation for heroism because she “was proud that he had stood up and fought for his country.”
But, she added, she does not support the Vietnam war itself because “young boys — who have hardly begun to live— are getting sent over there and killed and for what? Nothing.”
Her husband was 19 and, besides his widow, leaves a 13-month-old son, Guy Anthony, whom he saw for the only time during a 20-day leave just before he left for Vietnam at the end of February.
Gaudagno [sic], a specialist 4th class, was killed March 11 by a bullet in the head fired by Viet Cong guerrillas during a search and destroy mission with Company D, 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry, near Bong Son, Binh Dinh Province.
Mrs. Guadagno said she learned a month ago her husband would receive the Bronze Star posthumously. The presentation was made along with four other posthumous awards to soldiers’ next of kin at the ceremonies.