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JOHN LOUIS WAUGH
Private First Class · U.S. Army
October 22, 1944 – December 7, 1968
Service recordJohn Louis Waugh, of Rochester, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 7, 1968, in Phuoc Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 37W, Line 60 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37W · Line 60
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- October 22, 1944
- Home of record
- Rochester, New York (Monroe County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 7, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Phuoc Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date December 7, 1968; three of them were lost in Phuoc Long Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 103 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 37W, Line 60
- FEDERICO MATIAS-SANTANAPrivate First Class · December 7, 1968
- DON ELDRIDGE TURNERPrivate First Class · December 7, 1968
- JOHN A VIALPANDOPrivate First Class · December 7, 1968
- MICHAEL ROBERT BACHPrivate First Class · December 8, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RODOLFO JOSE ARCHULETASpecialist Four · Panel 37W, Line 54
- RICHARD FLAMOND HARRISPrivate First Class · Panel 37W, Line 56
From Rochester
- EUGENE RICHARDSONAirman First Class · October 24, 1964
- JOHN E EHRMENTRAUT JRPrivate First Class · April 24, 1965
- ALBERT S KNIGHT IIILance Corporal · June 22, 1965
- JOHN BERNARD TETTEPrivate First Class · August 18, 1965
- GEORGE STEPHEN BALAZYPrivate First Class · September 12, 1965
- JOSEPH CHRISTIANOColonel · December 24, 1965
- NOEL MICHAEL BARTOLFPrivate First Class · January 2, 1966
- NICHOLES SOCHACKIPrivate First Class · February 25, 1966
- RICHARD FLOYD SMITHPrivate First Class · March 16, 1966
- ROBERT JULIUS VANREYPENPrivate First Class · March 27, 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.