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JOHN VINCENT AKIN
Private First Class · U.S. Army
June 10, 1948 – June 15, 1968
Service recordJohn Vincent Akin, of Rockport, Texas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 15, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 57W, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 57W · Line 22
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- June 10, 1948
- Home of record
- Rockport, Texas (Aransas County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 15, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
60 names on the Wall carry the date June 15, 1968; six of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 82 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 57W, Line 22
- JOHN WESLEY WRIGHTSpecialist Five · June 14, 1968
- ERVIN LEWIS AUMANSergeant · June 15, 1968
- CHARLES OAKES BAKER IISergeant First Class · June 15, 1968
- DAVID MICHAEL BERTRAMPrivate First Class · June 15, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT DAVID BROCKMANPrivate First Class · Panel 57W, Line 23
- MICHAEL DENNIS DAVIDSpecialist Four · Panel 57W, Line 24
- RALPH HENRY FRANCK JRPrivate First Class · Panel 57W, Line 25
- ARTHUR JAMES HOYTSergeant · Panel 57W, Line 27
- JAMES EDWARD SULLINGERCorporal · Panel 57W, Line 32
- OSCAR VALENZUELA JRPrivate First Class · Panel 57W, Line 33
From Rockport
- C GREGORY NUCKLESFirst Lieutenant · November 4, 1967
- HENRY R GARCIAStaff Sergeant · December 10, 1967
- ALFREDO MEDINA JRPrivate First Class · February 1, 1968
- MACK HOUSTON WILHELMPetty Officer Third Class · February 19, 1969
- GUADALUPE GALINDO JRPrivate First Class · August 24, 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.