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JOHN LOUIS BYLON
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 29, 1946 – February 23, 1967
Service recordJohn Louis Bylon, of Chicago, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 23, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 15E, Line 78 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15E · Line 78
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- December 29, 1946
- Home of record
- Chicago, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 23, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
21 names on the Wall carry the date February 23, 1967; 11 of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In February 1967, 767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 22 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 15E, Line 78
- MICHAEL BOYD CARTERLance Corporal · February 23, 1967
- GREGORY C CLEMENTCaptain · February 23, 1967
- GEORGE EUGENE COLES JRPrivate First Class · February 23, 1967
- JULIAN WAYNE COUCHPlatoon Sergeant · February 23, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JAMES ARTHUR MASTENSergeant · Panel 15E, Line 79
- MARTIN M MUGAVINSpecialist Four · Panel 15E, Line 80
From Chicago
- MELVIN LESTER WATERSPrivate · February 10, 1965
- WILLIAM RALPH FUHRMANPetty Officer Third Class · April 23, 1965
- RAYMOND LEON HORNCorporal · May 1, 1965
- ARTHUR C JEPSON JRCaptain · May 16, 1965
- DONALD CLAY DEDMONStaff Sergeant · June 10, 1965
- ROGER PELIKANLance Corporal · July 17, 1965
- HARRY COHENTechnical Sergeant · July 19, 1969
- CURTIS LOCKHARTPrivate First Class · July 30, 1965
- EDWARD KOPECPrivate First Class · August 18, 1965
- JAMES LEO WHITELance Corporal · August 19, 1965
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.