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JOHN DARLINGTON PEACE III
Commander · U.S. Navy
November 18, 1935 – December 31, 1967
Service recordJohn Darlington Peace III, of Hudson, Ohio, served as a Commander in the U.S. Navy. He was lost on December 31, 1967, in North Vietnam, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 33E, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 33E · Line 10
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
- Commander (CDR)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Url Pilot (1310)
- Unit (as recorded)
- VA 75
- Born
- November 18, 1935
- Home of record
- Hudson, Ohio (Summit County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- December 31, 1967
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date December 31, 1967. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “VA 75”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
Also on Panel 33E, Line 10
- GORDON SAMUEL PERISHOLieutenant Commander · December 31, 1967
- JOSE SANTANA JRCorporal · December 31, 1967
- JAMES EDWARD THOMPSONPrivate First Class · December 31, 1967
- WESLEY GRIFFIN TUCKERPrivate First Class · December 31, 1967
Same unit, same day
- GORDON SAMUEL PERISHOLieutenant Commander · Panel 33E, Line 10
From Hudson
- JOSEPH FRANK ROSATOCaptain · June 2, 1966
- JERRY EDWARD GORNEYFirst Lieutenant · May 13, 1967
- RONALD LEE DAVIDSONSecond Lieutenant · August 5, 1968
- ARMOUR DAVID WILCOX IIISergeant · December 8, 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.