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JOHN JOSEPH FARNSWORTH JR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 7, 1950 – November 13, 1970
Service recordJohn Joseph Farnsworth JR, of Frackville, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 13, 1970, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 6W, Line 56 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6W · Line 56
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- December 7, 1950
- Home of record
- Frackville, Pennsylvania (Schuylkill County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 13, 1970
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
13 names on the Wall carry the date November 13, 1970; two of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In November 1970, 347 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 14 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 6W, Line 56
- SALVATORE JOSEPH ARMATOPrivate First Class · November 13, 1970
- WILLIAM W BANCROFT JRFirst Lieutenant · November 13, 1970
- KEN DWIGHT BURNSPrivate First Class · November 13, 1970
- ROBERT HUGH GUMM JRSergeant · November 13, 1970
Same unit, same day
- MONROE ALAN POWERSSpecialist Four · Panel 6W, Line 57
- JOHN GREGORY STRACHOTASpecialist Four · Panel 6W, Line 57
From Frackville
- STEPHEN CHARLES BRISUDASpecialist Four · October 1, 1965
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.