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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of John Jautris Zimulis.

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JOHN JAUTRIS ZIMULIS

Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army

March 26, 1936 – November 4, 1968

Service record

John Jautris Zimulis, of New York, New York, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 4, 1968, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 32. His name is inscribed on Panel 39W, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 39W · Line 20

Position of Panel 39W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Army
Rank
Sergeant First Class (SFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
Unit (as recorded)
MACV ADVISORS
Born
March 26, 1936
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 4, 1968
Age
32
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

25 names on the Wall carry the date November 4, 1968; two of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 39W, Line 20

Same unit, same day

From New York

All 1370 names from New York →

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.