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JOHN PATRICK MCDERMOTT
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
December 9, 1945 – September 7, 1968
Service recordJohn Patrick McDermott, of Pittsburg, Kansas, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on September 7, 1968, in An Xugen Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 45W, Line 63 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45W · Line 63
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Boatswain's Mate (BM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- December 9, 1945
- Home of record
- Pittsburg, Kansas (Crawford County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 7, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- An Xugen
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
26 names on the Wall carry the date September 7, 1968; he was the only one lost in An Xugen Province that day. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 45W, Line 63
- DAVID RAY KARRSergeant First Class · September 7, 1968
- ROBERT EUGENE MACKEYCorporal · September 7, 1968
- JAMES JOSEPH NEIDLINGERCorporal · September 7, 1968
- ERWIN GILBERT POWELL JRPrivate First Class · September 7, 1968
From Pittsburg
- DANIEL SCOTT MULLERPetty Officer Third Class · June 4, 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.