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JOHN B PETERSON JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 15, 1948 – March 10, 1969
Service recordJohn B Peterson JR, of Dover, New Jersey, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 10, 1969, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 29W, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29W · Line 2
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Tactical Wire Operations Specialist (36K)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- August 15, 1948
- Home of record
- Dover, New Jersey (Morris County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 10, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date March 10, 1969; two of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 49 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 29W, Line 2
- CLARENCE E NUNNERY JRSergeant · March 10, 1969
- LARRY LEE RAUSCHERPrivate First Class · March 10, 1969
- AARON LEE SMITHSpecialist Four · March 10, 1969
- JAMES LAMAR YARBROUGHPrivate · March 10, 1969
Same unit, same day
- JOHN PETER GUTTMANN JRPrivate First Class · Panel 30W, Line 101
From Dover
- HARLAN CARL RILKCorporal · September 16, 1967
- ROBERT ERNEST SIPESpecialist Five · September 23, 1967
- ALLEN WALTER VANDERHOOFCorporal · May 21, 1968
- WILLIAM FRANCIS BRICE JRSergeant · May 27, 1968
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.