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JOHN WILLIAM BORDERS JR
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
July 28, 1939 – March 8, 1968
Service recordJohn William Borders JR, of Saugus, California, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on March 8, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 28. His name is inscribed on Panel 43E, Line 51 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 43E · Line 51
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Builder (BU)
- Born
- July 28, 1939
- Home of record
- Saugus, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 8, 1968
- Age
- 28
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
68 names on the Wall carry the date March 8, 1968; 27 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 43E, Line 51
- ELVIN L ALLENPrivate First Class · March 8, 1968
- CRAIG ALAN ARNDTSpecialist Four · March 8, 1968
- JOHN DOUGLAS BEAVERPrivate First Class · March 8, 1968
- BERNARD BONEYSpecialist Four · March 8, 1968
From Saugus
- DAVID LEE REEDERSergeant · November 19, 1965
- JOSEPH SAMUEL GODWINPetty Officer Third Class · April 7, 1966
- TERRY DALE GEMASPrivate First Class · December 29, 1966
- FRANK DENNIS ORTEGAPrivate First Class · February 25, 1968
- MICHAEL ANDREW FAYSpecialist Five · March 26, 1968
- CHARLES CLARENCE SMITH JRSpecialist Four · April 18, 1969
- HENRY CHESTER KLINGERSpecialist Four · January 1, 1970
- GARY ALLEN TURNBULLSergeant · May 10, 1970
- GARY ROBERT MONTELEONESpecialist Four · May 10, 1972
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.