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JOHN PHILIP GOGGIN
Second Lieutenant · U.S. Army
May 29, 1946 – September 11, 1969
Service recordJohn Philip Goggin, of New York, New York, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on September 11, 1969, in Phong Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 18W, Line 68 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18W · Line 68
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
- Second Lieutenant (2LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Intelligence Staff Officer (G2,a2,s2) (9301)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- May 29, 1946
- Home of record
- New York, New York (Kings County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 11, 1969
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Phong Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date September 11, 1969; two of them were lost in Phong Dinh Province. In September 1969, 664 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 14 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 18W, Line 68
- WOODROW JOHNSEN EWALD JRCorporal · September 11, 1969
- KENNETH WAYNE FIELDSCorporal · September 11, 1969
- DALE STEVEN FULKSpecialist Four · September 11, 1969
- TILLMAN DAVID RODGERS JRPrivate First Class · September 11, 1969
Same unit, same day
- MICHAEL RALPH R ODUMCaptain · Panel 18W, Line 71
- PATRICK MICHAEL WARDCaptain · Panel 18W, Line 73
From New York
- WALTER R MCCARTHY JRCaptain · June 16, 1962
- JOHN HOWARD MCCLEANCaptain · August 16, 1963
- DONALD ALLAN MOLLICONEFirst Lieutenant · December 20, 1963
- VINCENT JOSEPH HICKMANCaptain · January 14, 1964
- MARTIN STOCKFEDERPrivate First Class · July 15, 1964
- ROBERT GEORGE ARMSTRONGFirst Lieutenant · October 24, 1964
- DOMINICK SANSONESergeant First Class · December 10, 1964
- DONALD GILBERT COOKColonel · December 31, 1964
- TERENCE MEREDITH MURPHYLieutenant (junior grade) · April 9, 1965
- ROBERT CARL WISTRANDColonel · May 9, 1965
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.