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JOHN SALAZAR
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
March 8, 1934 – June 3, 1968
Service recordJohn Salazar, of Honolulu, Hawaii, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 3, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 34. His name is inscribed on Panel 60W, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 60W · Line 5
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- March 8, 1934
- Home of record
- Honolulu, Hawaii (Honolulu County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 3, 1968
- Age
- 34
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
61 names on the Wall carry the date June 3, 1968; three of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 60W, Line 5
- EDWARD QUINONESCorporal · June 3, 1968
- GARY LEE RUSSELLPrivate First Class · June 3, 1968
- DAVID RAY SQUIRESSpecialist Five · June 3, 1968
- CLIFFORD STAPLETONSpecialist Five · June 3, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RONALD STUART GILLIAMSpecialist Four · Panel 61W, Line 23
- HERMAN EUGENE HANTZFirst Lieutenant · Panel 61W, Line 24
From Honolulu
- JAMES GABRIEL JRSpecialist Five · April 8, 1962
- JAMES HIROSHI ISHIHARAChief Warrant Officer 3 · March 10, 1963
- ALAN YUKIO MATSUURAPrivate First Class · April 12, 1964
- JOSEPH N HAOSergeant First Class · November 14, 1964
- ALBERT KALAHANA KUEWAAirman · September 18, 1964
- FLORENDO B PASCUALSergeant First Class · November 3, 1965
- ROBERT HENRY WHITECorporal · December 3, 1965
- ROY SHIGERU KOBAYASHICaptain · January 23, 1966
- SAMUEL POOKEAOKAL GIFFARDStaff Sergeant · January 25, 1966
- GEORGE GRANT KING WEBB JRLance Corporal · February 10, 1966
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.