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JOHN MICHAEL TALLION
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
September 28, 1945 – March 27, 1967
Service recordJohn Michael Tallion, of East Orwell, Ohio, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 27, 1967, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 59 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 59
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- September 28, 1945
- Home of record
- East Orwell, Ohio (Ashtabula County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 27, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
18 names on the Wall carry the date March 27, 1967; three of them were lost in Long An Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 82 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 17E, Line 59
- AMALIO PAGAN-PAGANSpecialist Four · March 27, 1967
- ALEXANDER J PALENSCAR IIILieutenant Commander · March 27, 1967
- KEVIN MICHAEL ROHRINGPrivate · March 27, 1967
- PAUL EDWARD ALBANOCorporal · March 28, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JOE WAYNE CHANDLERSpecialist Four · Panel 17E, Line 56
- KENNETH GILBERT GELLERMANSpecialist Four · Panel 17E, Line 57
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.