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JOHN LLOYD VORIES
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
August 7, 1947 – May 5, 1968
Service recordJohn Lloyd Vories, of Booneville, Arkansas, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on May 5, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 55E, Line 34 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 55E · Line 34
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
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- August 7, 1947
- Home of record
- Booneville, Arkansas (Logan County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 5, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
189 names on the Wall carry the date May 5, 1968; 14 of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 11th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 48 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 55E, Line 34
- GORDON LEE TERRELLSpecialist Four · May 5, 1968
- CRAIG COLLINS WALTERSSpecialist Four · May 5, 1968
- SAMUEL EUGENE WATKINSPrivate First Class · May 5, 1968
- AFTON M WATTSCaptain · May 5, 1968
From Booneville
- MORRISON AUTHER COTNERMajor · April 28, 1967
- JAMES ALLEN FROSTSpecialist Four · November 6, 1968
- CLYDE LEROY DICKASONSpecialist Four · January 11, 1969
- JOHN STEPHEN SATTERFIELDSpecialist Four · December 28, 1972
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.