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JOHN BERNARD HOGAN
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
April 2, 1946 – February 15, 1968
Service recordJohn Bernard Hogan, of Ft Plain, New York, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on February 15, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 39E, Line 48 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39E · Line 48
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 3 TANK BN 3 MAR DIV
- Born
- April 2, 1946
- Home of record
- Ft Plain, New York (Montgomery County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 15, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date February 15, 1968; ten of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 39E, Line 48
- JAMES MARSHALL HILLFirst Lieutenant · February 15, 1968
- EARNEST PAUL HOLMES JRPrivate First Class · February 15, 1968
- MARK EVERETT JAMESLance Corporal · February 15, 1968
- STANLEY M JAMROCKPrivate First Class · February 15, 1968
From Ft Plain
- LESTER EARL ROPETERPrivate First Class · September 19, 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.