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JOHN BYRON SMITH
Hospitalman · U.S. Navy
December 20, 1945 – August 29, 1968
Service recordJohn Byron Smith, of Butler, Indiana, served as a Hospitalman in the U.S. Navy. He died on August 29, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 45W, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45W · 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. Navy
- Rank
- Hospitalman (HN)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Born
- December 20, 1945
- Home of record
- Butler, Indiana (De Kalb County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 29, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
54 names on the Wall carry the date August 29, 1968; 27 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 45W, Line 2
- THOMAS RANDAL SCALISEPrivate First Class · August 29, 1968
- DONALD WAYNE SIMONSONPrivate First Class · August 29, 1968
- CLAIBORNE JOHN SKINNERLance Corporal · August 29, 1968
- ELK CARLOS NICHOLAS YELLOWPrivate First Class · August 29, 1968
From Butler
- EVERETT DAVISLance Corporal · March 13, 1968
- REX ALAN VOGELPOHLSpecialist Four · January 11, 1971
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.