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JOHN PASS III
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 15, 1949 – February 19, 1968
Service recordJohn Pass III, of Mckees Rocks, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 19, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 40E, Line 28 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40E · Line 28
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- May 15, 1949
- Home of record
- Mckees Rocks, Pennsylvania (Allegheny County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 19, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
93 names on the Wall carry the date February 19, 1968; 19 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 144 of its members that month.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Huế was under way. At Huế (31 January–2 March 1968), Marines, soldiers of the 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne divisions and South Vietnamese troops fought house to house for 26 days to retake the old imperial capital, the longest urban battle of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 40E, Line 28
- WALTER MARCELLU PATTERSONPrivate First Class · February 19, 1968
- JAMES DOUGLAS PENTLANDSpecialist Four · February 19, 1968
- DAVID ALLEN PITTSPrivate First Class · February 19, 1968
- SEVENTY J POLLOCKStaff Sergeant · February 19, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JAMES CLAIR FOSTERCorporal · Panel 40E, Line 17
- ASHLAND FREDERICK BURCHWELLFirst Lieutenant · Panel 40E, Line 18
- TIMOTHY LYNN COLLIERSpecialist Four · Panel 40E, Line 18
- GEORGE RONALD FULLERCorporal · Panel 40E, Line 21
- JOHN HERBERT GFELLERPlatoon Sergeant · Panel 40E, Line 21
- ROBERT DALE GRIFFISPrivate First Class · Panel 40E, Line 21
- RONNIE HARRELLPrivate First Class · Panel 40E, Line 22
- MARTIN ROY KNIGHTPrivate First Class · Panel 40E, Line 23
- DONALD FISHER MARSHALL IISpecialist Four · Panel 40E, Line 25
- JAMES EDWARD MULLINSFirst Lieutenant · Panel 40E, Line 26
- WALTER MARCELLU PATTERSONPrivate First Class · Panel 40E, Line 28
- CARL ALLAN RATTEESergeant · Panel 40E, Line 29
- WILLIAM ROBERT SEIBERTSergeant · Panel 40E, Line 30
- JERRY DONALD SISCO JRPrivate First Class · Panel 40E, Line 31
- ENRIQUE LORENZO SOLIZSpecialist Four · Panel 40E, Line 32
- THOMAS CECIL VAUGHANSpecialist Four · Panel 40E, Line 33
- JAMES ROBERT WEBSTER JRSpecialist Four · Panel 40E, Line 34
From Mckees Rocks
- JOHN STEVEN WOOLHEATERPetty Officer Third Class · January 27, 1967
- ROBERT JOHN KOTIKLance Corporal · April 30, 1967
- KENNETH JAMES PATTONStaff Sergeant · February 2, 1968
- ROBERT JOHN ROSENWALDPrivate First Class · February 21, 1968
- ALAN ROBERT GAULTSpecialist Four · April 10, 1968
- JOHN EDWARD METZLERPrivate First Class · October 12, 1968
- GEORGE WILLIAM GREGAWarrant Officer 1 · November 2, 1969
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.