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JOHN CARR GLESENKAMP
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 4, 1949 – February 9, 1968
Service recordJohn Carr Glesenkamp, of Flint, Michigan, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 9, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 38E, Line 49 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38E · Line 49
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- May 4, 1949
- Home of record
- Flint, Michigan (Genesee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 9, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
107 names on the Wall carry the date February 9, 1968; 21 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 168 of its members that month.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Huế was under way. At Huế (31 January–2 March 1968), Marines, soldiers of the 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne divisions and South Vietnamese troops fought house to house for 26 days to retake the old imperial capital, the longest urban battle of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 38E, Line 49
- CECIL WAYNE EPPSPrivate First Class · February 9, 1968
- LEONARD ELZY EULITTPrivate First Class · February 9, 1968
- WILLIAM NEIL FLINTStaff Sergeant · February 9, 1968
- WILLIAM JACOB GOLDBERGPrivate First Class · February 9, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT JOHN ALLENSpecialist Four · Panel 38E, Line 42
- LEONARD ELZY EULITTPrivate First Class · Panel 38E, Line 49
- DAVID ERNEST LITTLETONCorporal · Panel 38E, Line 55
From Flint
- ROY E STOKESLance Corporal · June 4, 1965
- FRED TOINSSpecialist Four · October 12, 1965
- JAMES LEROY CRAGARStaff Sergeant · October 22, 1965
- DONALD CAMERON MCPHEEGunnery Sergeant · October 24, 1965
- WARDLOW WESLEY PARTEEPrivate First Class · November 12, 1965
- BILLIE NEAL PLUMPrivate First Class · February 26, 1966
- RAYMOND CARL ROBINSONSergeant · March 30, 1966
- DENNIS A DESCOPrivate First Class · April 11, 1966
- JULIAN B WILLOUGHBYStaff Sergeant · April 29, 1966
- JAMES EDWARD DOZIERLance Corporal · August 25, 1966
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.