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JOHN MACARTHUR PAGE
Second Lieutenant · U.S. Army
October 13, 1946 – January 20, 1969
Service recordJohn Macarthur Page, of Rochelle, Illinois, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 20, 1969, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 34W, Line 44 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34W · Line 44
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Second Lieutenant (2LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Unit Commander (1193)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- October 13, 1946
- Home of record
- Rochelle, Illinois (Ogle County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 20, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date January 20, 1969; seven of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 70 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 34W, Line 44
- DAVID PAUL OKERPrivate First Class · January 20, 1969
- ROY FRANKLIN PHILLIPSSecond Lieutenant · January 20, 1969
- NORMAN WALLACE PIERREPetty Officer First Class · January 20, 1969
- WESLEY ROY POTTERCorporal · January 20, 1969
Same unit, same day
- PAUL ALLEN BALLARDSergeant · Panel 34W, Line 40
- THOMAS ALLEN FOREMANCorporal · Panel 34W, Line 41
- JOSEPH JOHN FUNKSergeant · Panel 34W, Line 41
- EDWARD HAROLD MANNSergeant First Class · Panel 34W, Line 43
- TERRY LYNN MARTINCorporal · Panel 34W, Line 43
- RONALD EDWARD STOKERPrivate First Class · Panel 34W, Line 45
From Rochelle
- ARTHUR GENE RICHARDSONFirst Lieutenant · October 8, 1963
- ARNOLD EDWARD JOHNSONSpecialist Four · November 16, 1967
- ROGER LEE BATTPrivate First Class · January 14, 1968
- NORMAN GENE CATESPrivate First Class · November 1, 1968
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.