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JOHN HERBERT SNYDER
Airman Second Class · U.S. Air Force
August 24, 1947 – October 15, 1967
Service recordJohn Herbert Snyder, of Santa Rosa, California, served as an Airman Second Class in the U.S. Air Force. He died on October 15, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 28E, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28E · Line 12
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. Air Force
- Rank
- Airman Second Class (A2C)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- 7 AF
- Born
- August 24, 1947
- Home of record
- Santa Rosa, California (Sonoma County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 15, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date October 15, 1967; ten of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “7 AF”, his unit in the record, lost 9 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Con Thien was under way. Through September and October 1967, North Vietnamese artillery across the Demilitarized Zone pounded the Marine outpost at Con Thien and the bases along the DMZ in Quảng Trị Province. 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 28E, Line 12
- ORVAL L SKIRVINSergeant First Class · October 15, 1967
- DAVID JOHN SPINALISpecialist Four · October 15, 1967
- HUBERT STACKHOUSEPrivate First Class · October 15, 1967
- ARNOLD DEAN SYROVATKASpecialist Four · October 15, 1967
Same unit, same day
- EDWARD MOSLEYTechnical Sergeant · Panel 28E, Line 10
From Santa Rosa
- DANA GALE ROSELance Corporal · December 31, 1966
- DAVID MICHAEL CHANEYAirman First Class · April 16, 1967
- JAMES ALLEN BULLINGTONWarrant Officer 1 · May 6, 1967
- GREGORY LYNN DUNNPrivate First Class · November 13, 1967
- RICKIE DAVIS FISHERPrivate · December 4, 1967
- JERRY DEAN SCHROEDERSpecialist Four · January 3, 1968
- JOSEPH MICHAEL RODRIGUESSpecialist Four · February 2, 1968
- ROBERT LEON SHARPLESSPrivate First Class · February 9, 1968
- FREDERICK WILLIAM HAASSpecialist Four · February 15, 1968
- CHARLES DUDLEY DORMANCorporal · May 12, 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.