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JOHN LEE INGRAM
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
May 15, 1949 – April 7, 1968
Service recordJohn Lee Ingram, of Weleetka, Oklahoma, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 7, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 48E, Line 41 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 48E · Line 41
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- May 15, 1949
- Home of record
- Weleetka, Oklahoma (Okfuskee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 7, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
62 names on the Wall carry the date April 7, 1968; eight of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 48E, Line 41
- PAUL DOUGLAS FLOURNOYCorporal · April 7, 1968
- LORRENCE TEALOA FRIDAYCorporal · April 7, 1968
- ALLAN JOSEPH GAINESPrivate First Class · April 7, 1968
- DOUGLAS WILLARD GUEST JRSpecialist Four · April 7, 1968
From Weleetka
- HAROLD E BOWMANSergeant · July 16, 1968
- LIONEL EUGENE PARSONSCaptain · November 12, 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.