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JOHN VERNON BERG
Master Gunnery Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
August 5, 1920 – October 30, 1968
Service recordJohn Vernon Berg, of Kinston, North Carolina, served as a Master Gunnery Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on October 30, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 48. His name is inscribed on Panel 40W, Line 56 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40W · Line 56
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Master Gunnery Sergeant (MGYSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Leader (0369)
- Born
- August 5, 1920
- Home of record
- Kinston, North Carolina (Lenoir County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 30, 1968
- Age
- 48
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date October 30, 1968; five of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 40W, Line 56
- DALE HARLAN AMUNDSONPrivate First Class · October 30, 1968
- GREGORY JOSEPH BARTKOWSKIPrivate First Class · October 30, 1968
- MERRITT LEWIS MURRAYCorporal · October 30, 1968
- HERBERT JOSEPH PARZYNSKISergeant First Class · October 30, 1968
From Kinston
- JIMMIE LLOYD MCBYNUMStaff Sergeant · October 22, 1965
- CHARLES CURTIS WHITFIELDPrivate · February 24, 1966
- WOODROW WILSON HAM JRStaff Sergeant · March 4, 1966
- DANIEL H LAWLERSpecialist Five · May 20, 1967
- CURTIS RAY MCLAWHORNSergeant · July 22, 1967
- BOBBY LEE BARBERPrivate First Class · November 2, 1967
- CARL LEE HILL JRSpecialist Four · April 4, 1968
- SETH LEE WEST JRStaff Sergeant · April 16, 1968
- JOHNNY MILLERSpecialist Four · May 2, 1968
- DEMPSEY WOODROW PARROTTSpecialist Four · May 4, 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.