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JOHN WESLEY FERRELL
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 12, 1946 – January 18, 1967
Service recordJohn Wesley Ferrell, of Jackson, Tennessee, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 18, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 47 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 14E · Line 47
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
- January 12, 1946
- Home of record
- Jackson, Tennessee (Madison County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 18, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date January 18, 1967; he was the only one lost in Quảng Nam Province that day. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 14E, Line 47
- GARY GENE WRIGHTColonel · January 17, 1967
- JESUS MAGIN ARCHULETAPrivate First Class · January 18, 1967
- GARY O BRENNANPrivate First Class · January 18, 1967
- ROGER SMITH BRYANTPrivate First Class · January 18, 1967
From Jackson
- CARL J SADLERPrivate First Class · October 28, 1965
- BOBBY C VINSONPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- ISAAC E HUNT JRSpecialist Four · August 2, 1966
- CHARLES EDWARD CLARKPrivate First Class · January 19, 1967
- THOMAS EDWARD MIDCALFPrivate First Class · May 15, 1967
- GEORGE P NICHOLSONStaff Sergeant · January 27, 1968
- BENNIE RAY JONESPrivate · May 17, 1968
- WILLIE GENE COOPERPrivate First Class · June 28, 1968
- RONALD DAVID HUTCHERSONSergeant · September 6, 1968
- GEORGE ALLEN YARBROUGHCorporal · September 17, 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.