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JOHN RICHARDS BABCOCK
Lieutenant (junior grade) · U.S. Navy
February 10, 1944 – December 18, 1968
Service recordJohn Richards Babcock, of Newport, California, served as a Lieutenant (junior grade) in the U.S. Navy. He died on December 18, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 38 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36W · Line 38
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
- Lieutenant (junior grade) (LTJG)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Url Pilot (1315)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 7 FLT
- Born
- February 10, 1944
- Home of record
- Newport, California (Mendocino County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 18, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date December 18, 1968; six of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 36W, Line 38
- ROGER HENRY STROUTFirst Lieutenant · December 17, 1968
- GERALD JAMES SZOSZOREKSpecialist Four · December 17, 1968
- GEORGE ANTHONY WEAVERSergeant · December 17, 1968
- GARY JON MEYERLieutenant · December 18, 1968
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.