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A Navy corpsman treats a wounded Marine of H Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, in Huế, February 1968.
A Navy corpsman treats a wounded Marine of H Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, in Huế, February 1968. Photo: Sgt. William F. Dickman, USMC, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of John Charles Agee.

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JOHN CHARLES AGEE

Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy

May 12, 1944 – February 28, 1967

Service record

John Charles Agee, of Lindsey, Ohio, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on February 28, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 15E, Line 112 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 15E · Line 112

Position of Panel 15E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Hospital Corpsman (HM)
Born
May 12, 1944
Home of record
Lindsey, Ohio (Sandusky County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 28, 1967
Age
22
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

62 names on the Wall carry the date February 28, 1967; 18 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1967, 767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 15E, Line 112

From Lindsey

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.