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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of John Francis Concannon.

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JOHN FRANCIS CONCANNON

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

April 6, 1940 – May 4, 1966

Service record

John Francis Concannon, of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 4, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 7E, Line 23 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 7E · Line 23

Position of Panel 7E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Chaplain Assistant (71M)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
April 6, 1940
Home of record
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts (Suffolk County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 4, 1966
Age
26
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

34 names on the Wall carry the date May 4, 1966. In May 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 27 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 7E, Line 23

Same unit, same day

From Jamaica Plain

All 12 names from Jamaica Plain →

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.