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JOHN BARDEN HUDSON
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
April 13, 1949 – April 20, 1968
Service recordJohn Barden Hudson, of Peekskill, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 20, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 51E, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 51E · Line 8
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- April 13, 1949
- Home of record
- Peekskill, New York (Westchester County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 20, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date April 20, 1968; 27 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 51E, Line 8
- LARRY JO JENNINGSPrivate First Class · April 20, 1968
- CHARLIE MIZZELLE JERNIGANSpecialist Four · April 20, 1968
- JOHN VICTOR JOHNSON JRPrivate First Class · April 20, 1968
- WILLIAM GLENN LAMBERTSergeant · April 20, 1968
From Peekskill
- OLIVER C CHASE JRCaptain · July 22, 1965
- WILLIAM MARTIN KELLYPrivate First Class · June 22, 1966
- DOUGLAS RONALD MOWBRAYPrivate First Class · September 15, 1966
- MICHAEL JOHN AMATOLance Corporal · May 13, 1967
- FRANK JOHN GUICHAUDPrivate First Class · May 24, 1967
- LAWRENCE ELSTON OSBORNESergeant · April 4, 1968
- CHESTER JOHN MOSHIER JRStaff Sergeant · July 24, 1968
- BRUCE EDWARD REEDCorporal · February 28, 1969
- MICHAEL LOUIS POGGISergeant · March 28, 1969
- WILLIAM TIMOTHY DORSEYPrivate First Class · July 3, 1970
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.