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JOHN WILLIAM MURPHY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
July 21, 1950 – December 14, 1970
Service recordJohn William Murphy, of Pendleton, Oregon, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 14, 1970, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 6W, Line 121 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6W · Line 121
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 3/5 CAV 9 INF DIV
- Born
- July 21, 1950
- Home of record
- Pendleton, Oregon (Umatilla County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 14, 1970
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
12 names on the Wall carry the date December 14, 1970; seven of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In December 1970, 271 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “3/5 CAV 9 INF DIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 6W, Line 121
- KENNETH HARLEN LOVESpecialist Four · December 14, 1970
- RICHARD LEE MAYNARD JRPrivate First Class · December 14, 1970
- DENNIS RALPH MORENOCorporal · December 14, 1970
- JOHN WILLIAM RUCKERSergeant · December 14, 1970
From Pendleton
- LESLIE ARNOLD BALLSergeant · March 31, 1968
- GLEN CHARLES KLEINLance Corporal · January 4, 1971
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.