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JOHN EDWARD SLATER
Second Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps
September 27, 1946 – December 15, 1968
Service recordJohn Edward Slater, of Marshalltown, Iowa, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 15, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36W · Line 27
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Second Lieutenant (2NDLT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Basic Infantry Officer (0301)
- Born
- September 27, 1946
- Home of record
- Marshalltown, Iowa (Marshall County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 15, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
16 names on the Wall carry the date December 15, 1968; four of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 36W, Line 27
- THOMAS EARLE RAMSEYCorporal · December 15, 1968
- EARNEST EARL SHEFFIELDPrivate First Class · December 15, 1968
- TEDDY RAY SININGERSpecialist Four · December 15, 1968
- JOHN MATHEW VITELLO JRSpecialist Four · December 15, 1968
From Marshalltown
- HARVEY WOODFORD GILBERTPrivate First Class · August 13, 1966
- ROBERT DOUGLAS KINGWarrant Officer 1 · December 4, 1967
- RICHARD CHARLES WESTBERGPrivate First Class · March 10, 1968
- STANLEY RICHARD SMITHMajor · May 11, 1968
- DONALD DENNIS WEYKERSpecialist Four · December 5, 1968
- DAVID LYNN RUTGERSPrivate First Class · February 25, 1969
- DARREL GENE BITTNERSergeant · May 8, 1969
- WILLIAM RUSSELL MCKIBBENCaptain · April 25, 1970
- RANDY LEE MASTSergeant · June 5, 1970
- KENNETH WAYNE TUCKERCorporal · February 15, 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.