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JOHN THOMAS LOCKHART
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
March 27, 1950 – March 11, 1971
Service recordJohn Thomas Lockhart, of Peekskill, New York, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on March 11, 1971, in Laos, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 38 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4W · Line 38
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- March 27, 1950
- Home of record
- Peekskill, New York (Westchester County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 11, 1971
- Age
- 20
- Country
- Laos
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
15 names on the Wall carry the date March 11, 1971. In March 1971, 429 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 33 of its members that month.
He died in Laos while Operation Lam Son 719 was under way. In Lam Son 719 (February–March 1971), South Vietnamese troops drove into Laos to cut the Ho Chi Minh Trail, carried and supported by U.S. helicopters and aircraft; more than 100 U.S. helicopters were lost.
Also on Panel 4W, Line 38
- DAVID EVERETT EASTONSpecialist Five · March 11, 1971
- WILLIAM JAMES FLOOD JRSpecialist Four · March 11, 1971
- DONALD RALPH HAMRICKSpecialist Four · March 11, 1971
- PHILIP BRUCE HOLTZCLAWCorporal · March 11, 1971
Same unit, same day
- EDMOND DAVID BILBREYCaptain · Panel 4W, Line 36
From Peekskill
- OLIVER C CHASE JRCaptain · July 22, 1965
- WILLIAM MARTIN KELLYPrivate First Class · June 22, 1966
- DOUGLAS RONALD MOWBRAYPrivate First Class · September 15, 1966
- MICHAEL JOHN AMATOLance Corporal · May 13, 1967
- FRANK JOHN GUICHAUDPrivate First Class · May 24, 1967
- LAWRENCE ELSTON OSBORNESergeant · April 4, 1968
- JOHN BARDEN HUDSONPrivate First Class · April 20, 1968
- CHESTER JOHN MOSHIER JRStaff Sergeant · July 24, 1968
- BRUCE EDWARD REEDCorporal · February 28, 1969
- MICHAEL LOUIS POGGISergeant · March 28, 1969
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.