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JOHN JOSEPH SULLIVAN
Private First Class · U.S. Army
February 16, 1949 – March 8, 1968
Service recordJohn Joseph Sullivan, of Watertown, Massachusetts, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 8, 1968, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 43E, Line 62 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43E · Line 62
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
- Medical Equipment Repairer (91A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- February 16, 1949
- Home of record
- Watertown, Massachusetts (Middlesex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 8, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
68 names on the Wall carry the date March 8, 1968; three of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 69 of its members that month.
He died in Bình Định Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 43E, Line 62
- SONNIE STEPHENSPrivate First Class · March 8, 1968
- GEORGE WILLIAM STORZSergeant · March 8, 1968
- ROBERT LEE TAYLOR JRCorporal · March 8, 1968
- DONALD ROBERT TITUSCorporal · March 8, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JAMES PAUL ROGANMajor · Panel 43E, Line 60
From Watertown
- JOHN ROBERT JOHNSONPrivate First Class · November 3, 1966
- JOHN HERBERT MORENOSergeant · March 1, 1968
- WILLIAM KENNETH REGANSergeant · July 7, 1968
- PAUL JAMES GORMANPrivate First Class · July 30, 1968
- PAUL JOSEPH SULLIVANFirst Lieutenant · August 9, 1968
- RICHARD STEPHEN MOXLEYPrivate First Class · August 29, 1968
- FREDERICK E HARRINGTON JRCorporal · October 22, 1968
- JAMES PATRICK CASEYWarrant Officer 1 · May 18, 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.