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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 George Page.

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JOHN GEORGE PAGE

Private First Class · U.S. Army

May 24, 1949 – September 12, 1970

Service record

John George Page, of Kenmore, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 12, 1970, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 7W, Line 59 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 7W · Line 59

Position of Panel 7W 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Aircraft Maintenance Apprentice (67A)
Unit (as recorded)
US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
Born
May 24, 1949
Home of record
Kenmore, New York (Erie County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 12, 1970
Age
21
Province
Binh Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Stroke

Context · from the records

What was happening

14 names on the Wall carry the date September 12, 1970; four of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In September 1970, 364 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM”, his unit in the record, lost 43 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 7W, Line 59

Same unit, same day

From Kenmore

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.