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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of John Thomas Kloc.

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JOHN THOMAS KLOC

Private · U.S. Army

August 27, 1947 – May 10, 1967

Service record

John Thomas Kloc, of Franklin, Wisconsin, served as a Private in the U.S. Army. He died on May 10, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 19E, Line 83 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 19E · Line 83

Position of Panel 19E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private (PVT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Pioneer (12A)
Unit (as recorded)
554 ENG BN 79 ENG GRP
Born
August 27, 1947
Home of record
Franklin, Wisconsin (Milwaukee County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 10, 1967
Age
19
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

62 names on the Wall carry the date May 10, 1967. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 19E, Line 83

From Franklin

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.