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JOHN WILLIAM PYLE
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
September 23, 1947 – February 14, 1968
Service recordJohn William Pyle, of Chicago, Illinois, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on February 14, 1968, in Darlac Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 39E, Line 38 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39E · Line 38
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- September 23, 1947
- Home of record
- Chicago, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 14, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Darlac
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
71 names on the Wall carry the date February 14, 1968; two of them were lost in Darlac Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 24 of its members that month.
He died in Darlac Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 39E, Line 38
- DAVID WAYNE PIPPINSpecialist Five · February 14, 1968
- WILLIAM ROBERT REESESecond Lieutenant · February 14, 1968
- BARRY LANE RIGSBYPrivate First Class · February 14, 1968
- GERALD WILLIAM ROBERTSONPrivate First Class · February 14, 1968
Same unit, same day
- FRANK JOSEPH SCHAPFirst Lieutenant · Panel 39E, Line 39
From Chicago
- MELVIN LESTER WATERSPrivate · February 10, 1965
- WILLIAM RALPH FUHRMANPetty Officer Third Class · April 23, 1965
- RAYMOND LEON HORNCorporal · May 1, 1965
- ARTHUR C JEPSON JRCaptain · May 16, 1965
- DONALD CLAY DEDMONStaff Sergeant · June 10, 1965
- ROGER PELIKANLance Corporal · July 17, 1965
- HARRY COHENTechnical Sergeant · July 19, 1969
- CURTIS LOCKHARTPrivate First Class · July 30, 1965
- EDWARD KOPECPrivate First Class · August 18, 1965
- JAMES LEO WHITELance Corporal · August 19, 1965
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.