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JOHN HENRY VANWYK
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
July 8, 1941 – August 24, 1965
Service recordJohn Henry Vanwyk, of Port Hueneme, California, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on August 24, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 3E, Line 40 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 3E · Line 40
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Builder (BU)
- Unit (as recorded)
- NMCB 9 3 NC BDE
- Born
- July 8, 1941
- Home of record
- Port Hueneme, California (Ventura County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 24, 1965
- Age
- 24
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
61 names on the Wall carry the date August 24, 1965. In August 1965, 179 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “NMCB 9 3 NC BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 3E, Line 40
- LARRY DEAN BELLCorporal · November 10, 1965
- CLIFTON WALTER HAYSSpecialist Five · November 10, 1965
- WILLIAM ESPOSITO JRCorporal · November 11, 1965
- JAMES DALE HAWESPrivate First Class · November 11, 1965
- WILLIS WILLIAM WEBERSergeant · November 11, 1965
Same unit, same day
- GARY WINGATE GRIMESPetty Officer Third Class · Panel 2E, Line 86
From Port Hueneme
- JESUS ARTHUR MUNOZSergeant · March 24, 1966
- DONALD EDMOND WEEDCorporal · January 27, 1968
- TAKESHI SATOPrivate First Class · July 3, 1969
- JOHN FRANK BARNETTLance Corporal · July 19, 1970
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.