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J ATHAN THEODORE
Sergeant · U.S. Army
July 26, 1937 – March 13, 1968
Service recordJ Athan Theodore, of Vashon, Washington, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 13, 1968, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 30. His name is inscribed on Panel 44E, Line 41 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44E · Line 41
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- July 26, 1937
- Home of record
- Vashon, Washington (King County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 13, 1968
- Age
- 30
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
57 names on the Wall carry the date March 13, 1968; 14 of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 16 of its members that month.
He died in Pleiku Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 44E, Line 41
- LARRY DEE SHERMANSpecialist Four · March 13, 1968
- VERNON ROBERT STEADPrivate First Class · March 13, 1968
- TODD EARLE SWANSONPrivate First Class · March 13, 1968
- RUBEN NOAH TACKETTSpecialist Four · March 13, 1968
From Vashon
- DAVID LESLIE MACEPrivate First Class · September 29, 1968
- WALTER LARRY FERRELLWarrant Officer 1 · January 27, 1969
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.