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JOHN WAYNE HEAPS
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
May 10, 1950 – September 14, 1968
Service recordJohn Wayne Heaps, of Bensenville, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 14, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 44W, Line 56 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44W · 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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- May 10, 1950
- Home of record
- Bensenville, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 14, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
26 names on the Wall carry the date September 14, 1968; six of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 44W, Line 56
- JAMES MICHAEL BAKERCorporal · September 14, 1968
- CLIFTON LEE BOWENPrivate · September 14, 1968
- RONALD MONTE FRASERSergeant · September 14, 1968
- ALAN ROBERT GIANNELLISergeant · September 14, 1968
From Bensenville
- MICHAEL JOHN COLEMANLance Corporal · January 27, 1968
- RICHARD ALAN ROTHERYLance Corporal · February 24, 1968
- PHILLIP JOHN ESSIGSergeant · August 15, 1968
- ALAN FREDERICK MARSCHALLSergeant · March 21, 1969
- PATRICK ROBERT CURRANMajor · September 29, 1969
- MICHAEL WAYNE PRENGELSpecialist Four · December 3, 1969
- JAN DOUGLAS GARRINGERCorporal · February 16, 1970
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.