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JOHN MICHAEL KARES
Hospitalman · U.S. Navy
January 29, 1947 – March 20, 1968
Service recordJohn Michael Kares, of Neponset, Illinois, served as a Hospitalman in the U.S. Navy. He died on March 20, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 45E, Line 40 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45E · Line 40
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. Navy
- Rank
- Hospitalman (HN)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Born
- January 29, 1947
- Home of record
- Neponset, Illinois (Bureau County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 20, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
41 names on the Wall carry the date March 20, 1968; three of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Nam Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 45E, Line 40
- DAVID EDWARD GREGOIRELance Corporal · March 20, 1968
- ELGIE GEORGE HANNAPrivate First Class · March 20, 1968
- RUFUS Q HENDERSONSpecialist Four · March 20, 1968
- GEORGE ALBERT JUAREZPrivate First Class · March 20, 1968
From Neponset
- VIRGIL LINDQUISTAirman Second Class · May 3, 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.