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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of John Joseph McNabb.

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JOHN JOSEPH MCNABB

Private First Class · U.S. Army

February 21, 1945 – November 30, 1967

Service record

John Joseph McNabb, of Somerville, Massachusetts, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 30, 1967, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 31E · Line 15

Position of Panel 31E 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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Construction Equipment Repairer (62B)
Unit (as recorded)
73 ENG CO USARV
Born
February 21, 1945
Home of record
Somerville, Massachusetts (Middlesex County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 30, 1967
Age
22
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

60 names on the Wall carry the date November 30, 1967; two of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 31E, Line 15

From Somerville

All 34 names from Somerville →

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.