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JOHN MARSHALL SNYDER JR
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
November 17, 1945 – April 7, 1968
Service recordJohn Marshall Snyder JR, of Webster Groves, Missouri, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 7, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 48E, Line 48 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 48E · Line 48
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
- Lance Corporal (LCPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- November 17, 1945
- Home of record
- Webster Groves, Missouri (St Louis County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 7, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
62 names on the Wall carry the date April 7, 1968; 32 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 48E, Line 48
- JAMES PRATT SMITHPrivate · April 7, 1968
- ROBERT LEE TATECorporal · April 7, 1968
- JEFFRY RAY THARALDSONPrivate First Class · April 7, 1968
- GEORGE MARTIN WEITZELPrivate First Class · April 7, 1968
From Webster Groves
- NORMAN EDWARD SNODGRASSPrivate First Class · August 15, 1965
- LAWRENCE ANDRE DIRNBERGERSecond Lieutenant · February 25, 1967
- WILLIAM HAROLD WALTERSSpecialist Four · September 30, 1967
- RALPH JOSEPH LUEBBERS JRLance Corporal · May 28, 1968
- RONALD EUGENE SHEPPARDPrivate · September 20, 1968
- WILLIAM DANIEL WINKELPrivate First Class · January 31, 1969
- VICTOR JOHN CARTIERPrivate First Class · April 8, 1969
- JAMES ALBERT HULL JRSergeant · May 17, 1969
- TIMOTHY KIM LECLAIRFirst Lieutenant · May 19, 1969
- JAMES ARTHUR WINFREYCorporal · August 7, 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.