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JOHN HENRY SAVAGEAU
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
May 28, 1947 – March 20, 1966
Service recordJohn Henry Savageau, of Peabody, Massachusetts, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 20, 1966, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 6E, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6E · Line 26
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Unit (as recorded)
- A CO 1 BN 4 MAR 3 MARDIV
- Born
- May 28, 1947
- Home of record
- Peabody, Massachusetts (Essex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 20, 1966
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
19 names on the Wall carry the date March 20, 1966; seven of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1966, 564 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “A CO 1 BN 4 MAR 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 6E, Line 26
- CLIFFORD ABDUL MCKENNANPrivate First Class · March 20, 1966
- JERALD LEE PINNEKERLieutenant (junior grade) · March 20, 1966
- GERALD BERNARD SCHMIDTLance Corporal · March 20, 1966
- HUBERT RAY SMITHStaff Sergeant · March 20, 1966
Same unit, same day
- JOHN ANTHONY VERGALLITOStaff Sergeant · Panel 6E, Line 27
From Peabody
- LEO WILLIAM LEVESQUEPetty Officer Second Class · December 13, 1965
- JOHN EDWARD MCCARTHYStaff Sergeant · February 20, 1967
- RALPH WARREN MANEYSergeant · March 22, 1968
- LOUIS MARIO GIROLIMONLance Corporal · June 10, 1968
- BRUCE ALEN MARRONPrivate First Class · July 20, 1968
- ROBERT LESLIE ROSSFirst Lieutenant · August 22, 1968
- RICHARD LANE COTTERSecond Lieutenant · February 10, 1969
- RICHARD JOSEPH BOISWarrant Officer 1 · March 7, 1969
- STEVEN ELLIS DONALDSONSecond Lieutenant · April 5, 1969
- BRUCE DAVID DICKFirst Lieutenant · May 9, 1969
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.