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JOHN HENRY WALKER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
April 24, 1946 – September 7, 1966
Service recordJohn Henry Walker, of Georgetown, South Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on September 7, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 10E, Line 74 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 10E · Line 74
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- April 24, 1946
- Home of record
- Georgetown, South Carolina (Georgetown County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 7, 1966
- Age
- 20
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
Nine names on the Wall carry the date September 7, 1966. In September 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 36 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 10E, Line 74
- ALEXANDER VERA HERNANDEZPrivate First Class · September 7, 1966
- SAMUEL LEE KEMPLance Corporal · September 7, 1966
- JOSE ANTONIO LOPEZLance Corporal · September 7, 1966
- JOSEPH ADRIAN G PERRONSpecialist Five · September 7, 1966
From Georgetown
- JOHN I COOKSergeant First Class · January 29, 1967
- PHILLIP GRANTSpecialist Four · April 1, 1967
- NATHANIEL E L JACKSONCorporal · April 16, 1968
- BEN CALHOUN WARDPrivate First Class · October 15, 1969
- RUDOLPH CALVIN THOMASStaff Sergeant · January 14, 1971
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.