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JOHN LAURENCE NESOVANOVIC
Warrant Officer 1 · U.S. Army
May 28, 1948 – October 2, 1970
Service recordJohn Laurence Nesovanovic, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, served as a Warrant Officer 1 in the U.S. Army. He died on October 2, 1970, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 7W, Line 107 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 7W · Line 107
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
- Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Utility/Observation Helicopter Pilot (100B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- May 28, 1948
- Home of record
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Milwaukee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 2, 1970
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date October 2, 1970; three of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In October 1970, 318 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 16 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 7W, Line 107
- GERALD LEE MASEDAFirst Lieutenant · October 2, 1970
- JAMES THOMAS MORINSpecialist Five · October 2, 1970
- ALFREDO SANUTSergeant First Class · October 2, 1970
- BRUCE JACOB STICKELSergeant · October 2, 1970
Same unit, same day
- RONALD KEVIN ALLGOODSpecialist Four · Panel 7W, Line 105
- ROBERT WARREN ALVERSON JRSpecialist Four · Panel 7W, Line 105
From Milwaukee
- TOM JOSEPH CRESSLieutenant · January 6, 1961
- ROBERT BURGERTSergeant · February 13, 1963
- PETER MATTHEW FEIERABENDPrivate First Class · February 16, 1964
- THADDEUS ZAJACSpecialist Four · September 27, 1965
- JAMES CALVIN WARDPrivate First Class · October 11, 1965
- TIMOTHY HOLTON JOHNSONPrivate First Class · November 6, 1965
- RICHARD WILLIAM SCHWENDLERCorporal · November 16, 1965
- MICHAEL ALFRED GRUBERPrivate First Class · December 5, 1965
- RICHARD JOSEPH BRUNKEPrivate First Class · December 14, 1965
- MICHAEL PETER MORANPrivate First Class · January 9, 1966
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.