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JOHN THOMAS DEPRIEST
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
May 6, 1946 – April 18, 1969
Service recordJohn Thomas Depriest, of Mobile, Alabama, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 18, 1969, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 107 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27W · Line 107
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
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- May 6, 1946
- Home of record
- Mobile, Alabama (Mobile County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 18, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
47 names on the Wall carry the date April 18, 1969; he was the only one lost in Định Tường Province that day. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 9 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 27W, Line 107
- THOMAS ARTHUR DAVISChief Warrant Officer 2 · April 18, 1969
- DAVID ALLEN DITTMERSergeant · April 18, 1969
- RANDALL SHELLEY ELLISSergeant First Class · April 18, 1969
- FRED GUNDER HAUGFirst Lieutenant · April 18, 1969
Same unit, same day
- FRED GUNDER HAUGFirst Lieutenant · Panel 27W, Line 107
From Mobile
- ANDREW C MITCHELL IIICaptain · April 8, 1963
- DAVID RUDOLPH DICKENSFirst Sergeant · November 1, 1965
- EDDIE LEE HILL JRCorporal · November 4, 1965
- SHERMAN ELDRIDGE OTISPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- NATHANIEL EARL CARTER IIISergeant · November 25, 1965
- ROBERT EDWARD BEXLEYPrivate First Class · January 30, 1966
- ROBERT LOUIS BEATONSergeant · February 22, 1966
- JOSEPH EMMETT LILLEYPrivate First Class · May 14, 1966
- JAMES DWIGHT NEWCOMBLance Corporal · July 17, 1966
- TIMOTHY SCOTT DAVIESLance Corporal · July 20, 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.