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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of John Charles P Lynch.

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JOHN CHARLES P LYNCH

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

January 9, 1945 – September 24, 1966

Service record

John Charles P Lynch, of Detroit, Michigan, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on September 24, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 11E, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 11E · Line 9

Position of Panel 11E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
January 9, 1945
Home of record
Detroit, Michigan (Wayne County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 24, 1966
Age
21
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

33 names on the Wall carry the date September 24, 1966. In September 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 43 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 11E, Line 9

From Detroit

All 525 names from Detroit →

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.