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JOHN MICHEL NASH
Captain · U.S. Army
March 21, 1937 – March 15, 1966
Service recordJohn Michel Nash, of Tipton, Indiana, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He was lost on March 15, 1966, in Laos, and was later declared dead. His name is inscribed on Panel 6E, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6E · Line 11
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
- Captain (CPT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Fixed Wing Aviation Unit Commander (1980)
- Unit (as recorded)
- HQ MACV SD 5891
- Born
- March 21, 1937
- Home of record
- Tipton, Indiana (Tipton County)
Casualty
- Date of loss
- March 15, 1966
- Country
- Laos
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Declared Dead
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
- First reported
- Missing in action
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date March 15, 1966. In March 1966, 564 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “HQ MACV SD 5891”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
He died in Laos while the air war over Laos was under way. From 1964 to 1973, U.S. aircraft bombed the Ho Chi Minh Trail and supported the war in northern Laos; many of the Americans lost over Laos were never recovered.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 6E, Line 11
- GARY EUGENE BARTZPrivate First Class · March 15, 1966
- IGNACIO HUICOCHEA-REYNASpecialist Four · March 15, 1966
- HERMAN PENNPrivate First Class · March 15, 1966
- CARMELO SANCHEZ-BERRIOSPrivate First Class · March 15, 1966
Same unit, same day
- GLENN DAVID MCELROYLieutenant Colonel · Panel 16E, Line 95
From Tipton
- WILLIAM CHESTER OSBORNCaptain · May 5, 1964
- MICHAEL LEE FARLEYCorporal · April 10, 1970
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.