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JOHN MICHAEL TROYER
First Lieutenant · U.S. Air Force
December 17, 1940 – December 6, 1966
Service recordJohn Michael Troyer, of Beach City, Ohio, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. He died on December 6, 1966, in Ninh Thuan Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 13E, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 13E · Line 17
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Air Force
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1STLT)
- Service
- Regular
- Born
- December 17, 1940
- Home of record
- Beach City, Ohio (Stark County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 6, 1966
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Ninh Thuan
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
12 names on the Wall carry the date December 6, 1966; two of them were lost in Ninh Thuan Province. In December 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 13E, Line 17
- GERALD HILAND STEWARTPrivate First Class · December 6, 1966
- FRANCISCO MARIO TAMAYO JRLance Corporal · December 6, 1966
- DONALD A WISESpecialist Five · December 6, 1966
- RICHARD CARL BRANDTPrivate · December 7, 1966
From Beach City
- VICTOR RAYMOND MILLERFirst Lieutenant · April 6, 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.