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JOHN GARRETT GARDNER
Captain · U.S. Marine Corps
July 28, 1940 – June 3, 1967
Service recordJohn Garrett Gardner, of Hot Springs, North Carolina, served as a Captain in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 3, 1967, in Laos, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 45 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21E · Line 45
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Captain (CAPT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Pilot Ch-46 Qualified (7562)
- Unit (as recorded)
- HMM 165 MAG 36 1 MAW
- Born
- July 28, 1940
- Home of record
- Hot Springs, North Carolina (Madison County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 3, 1967
- Age
- 26
- Country
- Laos
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
70 names on the Wall carry the date June 3, 1967. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “HMM 165 MAG 36 1 MAW”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
He died in Laos while the air war over Laos was under way. From 1964 to 1973, U.S. aircraft bombed the Ho Chi Minh Trail and supported the war in northern Laos; many of the Americans lost over Laos were never recovered.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 21E, Line 45
- JOHN PAUL FRANCISCorporal · June 3, 1967
- HARRY EUGENE GEARYCorporal · June 3, 1967
- LAWSON DOUGLAS GERARDPrivate First Class · June 3, 1967
- AUBREY LAURENCE HEWITTSergeant · June 3, 1967
Same unit, same day
- STEPHEN PAUL HANSONMajor · Panel 21E, Line 46
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.