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JOHN OWEN WARREN
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
August 25, 1937 – December 16, 1970
Service recordJohn Owen Warren, of Augusta, Georgia, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 16, 1970, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 33. His name is inscribed on Panel 6W, Line 125 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6W · Line 125
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- August 25, 1937
- Home of record
- Augusta, Georgia (Richmond County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 16, 1970
- Age
- 33
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
11 names on the Wall carry the date December 16, 1970; two of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In December 1970, 271 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 12 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 6W, Line 125
- STARR FREDERICK FRYESpecialist Five · December 16, 1970
- DAVID LEE GILMORSpecialist Four · December 16, 1970
- VAL CLARK ROBINSONSergeant · December 16, 1970
- RONALD C WALTERSCorporal · December 16, 1970
From Augusta
- WILLIAM JEFFERSON LINDSEYPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- TOMMIE GARRETTCorporal · December 18, 1965
- PAUL EUGENE SWIMPlatoon Sergeant · May 8, 1966
- ROGER DORSEYPrivate First Class · May 10, 1966
- PHILLIP MALCOLM PIERCE JRPrivate First Class · July 22, 1966
- PHILLIP JACOB MOOGSecond Lieutenant · August 10, 1966
- HOWARD D ULMER JRFirst Lieutenant · October 3, 1966
- WILLIAM FORSYTH SPERRYSpecialist Four · November 13, 1966
- ROBERT RICHARDSONPrivate First Class · June 3, 1967
- GERALD WAYNE INGLETTPrivate First Class · June 4, 1967
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.