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JOHN JOSEPH MONAGHAN JR
Second Lieutenant · U.S. Army
October 10, 1947 – May 25, 1968
Service recordJohn Joseph Monaghan JR, of Mechanicsville, Virginia, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 25, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 67W, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 67W · Line 2
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
- Second Lieutenant (2LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Unit Commander (1193)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 FIELD FORCE
- Born
- October 10, 1947
- Home of record
- Mechanicsville, Virginia (Hanover County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 25, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
89 names on the Wall carry the date May 25, 1968; three of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 67W, Line 2
- RONALD CURTIS MCEUENSergeant · May 25, 1968
- WILLIAM JUNIOR MOORE JRPrivate First Class · May 25, 1968
- MASON NIXON JRPrivate First Class · May 25, 1968
- EUGENE GEORGE OCONNELLSergeant · May 25, 1968
From Mechanicsville
- GEORGE CREIGHTON VASSEYSergeant First Class · August 4, 1968
- RAYMOND ALLEN CHARTIERPrivate First Class · November 20, 1969
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.