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JOHN PATRICK ELLIS
Captain · U.S. Marine Corps
January 27, 1936 – February 28, 1968
Service recordJohn Patrick Ellis, of Cochran, Georgia, served as a Captain in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 28, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 32. His name is inscribed on Panel 41E, Line 64 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41E · Line 64
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Captain (CAPT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Aircraft Fire Protection And Recovery Officer (Iii) (7002)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 3 MAF
- Born
- January 27, 1936
- Home of record
- Cochran, Georgia (Bleckley County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 28, 1968
- Age
- 32
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
91 names on the Wall carry the date February 28, 1968; 29 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “3 MAF”, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 41E, Line 64
- CLARENCE HENRY BURDETTSergeant First Class · February 28, 1968
- ALAN GREGORY FLOYDPrivate First Class · February 28, 1968
- JAMES NORBERT GALEYTechnical Sergeant · February 28, 1968
- RAYMOND CLARK MASONLance Corporal · May 28, 2006
Same unit, same day
- KYLE J COLESLance Corporal · Panel 41E, Line 61
From Cochran
- DWIGHT ERVYN BOZEMANCorporal · May 9, 1968
- JACKIE DENNIS BASSPrivate First Class · May 31, 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.