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JOHN ALTON NEVELS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 26, 1949 – February 18, 1968
Service recordJohn Alton Nevels, of Brazoria, Texas, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 18, 1968, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 40E, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40E · Line 11
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- January 26, 1949
- Home of record
- Brazoria, Texas (Brazoria County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 18, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
85 names on the Wall carry the date February 18, 1968; two of them were lost in Long An Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 164 of its members that month.
He died in Long An 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.
Also on Panel 40E, Line 11
- CARL LOUIS LJUNGPrivate First Class · February 18, 1968
- ROBERT VIRGIL NOWAKSergeant · February 18, 1968
- ROBERT LEE PETERSONPrivate First Class · February 18, 1968
- LEONARD MORRIS PHIPPSSpecialist Four · February 18, 1968
Same unit, same day
- EDWARD EARL DEWPrivate First Class · Panel 40E, Line 4
- BOBBY EUGENE LEESpecialist Four · Panel 40E, Line 8
- JOHNNIE WYLIE POTTSPrivate First Class · Panel 40E, Line 12
- KENNETH WAYNE SHAPLANDCorporal · Panel 40E, Line 13
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.