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JOHN HERBERT SHALLAH
Private First Class · U.S. Army
April 21, 1946 – March 7, 1967
Service recordJohn Herbert Shallah, of Somerville, Massachusetts, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 7, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 37 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16E · Line 37
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- April 21, 1946
- Home of record
- Somerville, Massachusetts (Middlesex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 7, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date March 7, 1967; six of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 35 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 16E, Line 37
- DANIEL JOHN ORLIKOWSKIPrivate First Class · March 7, 1967
- LARRY RAY RIDDLEPetty Officer Third Class · March 7, 1967
- THOMAS LASANDA SCOTTSpecialist Four · March 7, 1967
- LARRY DEAN WATTSPrivate First Class · March 7, 1967
Same unit, same day
- KENNETH HAROLD ARNOLDPrivate First Class · Panel 16E, Line 33
- LANNY GAYLE WRIGHTSpecialist Four · Panel 16E, Line 38
From Somerville
- THOMAS EDWARD MURRAYCorporal · December 29, 1965
- ROY JOHN HENDERSONPrivate First Class · March 15, 1966
- DANIEL BENJAMIN DUFFY JRCorporal · April 24, 1966
- WILLIAM DAVID HOLDENSergeant · February 16, 1967
- CLARK ALAN MILLERSpecialist Four · March 16, 1967
- KENNETH LAWRENCE GREENEPrivate First Class · June 22, 1967
- WILLIAM JOSEPH MCRAEPrivate · August 9, 1967
- JOHN JOSEPH MCNABBPrivate First Class · November 30, 1967
- JOHN DONALD KENNE MACLEANSergeant · February 4, 1968
- FREDERICK J OCONNOR JRPrivate First Class · February 27, 1968
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.