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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of John Henry Morris JR.

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JOHN HENRY MORRIS JR

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

August 9, 1948 – July 9, 1971

Service record

John Henry Morris JR, of St Louis, Missouri, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 9, 1971, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 3W, Line 104 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 3W · Line 104

Position of Panel 3W 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
Military Police (95B)
Unit (as recorded)
US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
Born
August 9, 1948
Home of record
St Louis, Missouri (St Louis (City) County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 9, 1971
Age
22
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

One name on the Wall carry the date July 9, 1971. In July 1971, 118 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 34 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 3W, Line 104

From St Louis

All 296 names from St Louis →

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.