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JOHN ROY TIGHE
Private First Class · U.S. Army
April 22, 1947 – May 17, 1967
Service recordJohn Roy Tighe, of Lomita, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 17, 1967, in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 19 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20E · Line 19
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- April 22, 1947
- Home of record
- Lomita, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 17, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Phuoc Tuy
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date May 17, 1967; two of them were lost in Phuoc Tuy Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 23 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 20E, Line 19
- TERENCE EDWARD SIMONPrivate First Class · May 17, 1967
- WENDELL LEE SLAVENSPrivate First Class · May 17, 1967
- GREGORY MALCOLM THOMPSONPrivate First Class · May 17, 1967
- ROGER DARRIEL THOMPSONPrivate First Class · May 17, 1967
Same unit, same day
- CHARLIE GRAY LEWISSergeant First Class · Panel 1E, Line 121
- ROBERT RAY BOYDCaptain · Panel 20E, Line 12
- EDWARD ORAN CLAEYSPrivate First Class · Panel 20E, Line 13
- MARVIN EUGENE CUTRERPrivate First Class · Panel 20E, Line 13
- WINFRED ALDERMANPrivate First Class · Panel 20E, Line 14
- GEORGE RAY FAYFIE EDWARDSSpecialist Five · Panel 20E, Line 15
- JOSEPH O FRIGAULTStaff Sergeant · Panel 20E, Line 15
- WILSON TRUMAN GERALDSergeant · Panel 20E, Line 15
- STEVEN MICHAEL HANIOTESPrivate First Class · Panel 20E, Line 16
- WILLIAM COY TURNERSpecialist Four · Panel 20E, Line 20
From Lomita
- DENNIS RAY CARTERStaff Sergeant · August 28, 1966
- RICHARD WARREN HASTINGSLieutenant · April 16, 1966
- GLEN ALAN MUSGUIRELance Corporal · November 14, 1966
- RICHARD ANTHONY BAGLIOPrivate First Class · March 7, 1967
- SAMUEL RAY DURHAMSpecialist Four · June 9, 1967
- JOHN THOMAS CARROLLPrivate First Class · October 11, 1967
- JOHN GEOFFREY TURKLance Corporal · January 4, 1968
- RAYMOND DENNIS MCGLOTHINPrivate First Class · January 5, 1968
- ALAN RUSSELL GUYMONSergeant · April 5, 1968
- FREDERICK RAYMOND HORRIDGEPrivate First Class · October 13, 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.