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JOHN WILLIE BLACKWELL
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
December 31, 1947 – April 6, 1969
Service recordJohn Willie Blackwell, of Yanceyville, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on April 6, 1969, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27W · Line 27
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- General Vehicle Repairman (63C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- December 31, 1947
- Home of record
- Yanceyville, North Carolina (Caswell County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 6, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Vehicle Crash (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
26 names on the Wall carry the date April 6, 1969; three of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 27W, Line 27
- LEO JOE SCHROLLER JRCorporal · April 6, 1969
- GLENN WILLIAM THOMASLance Corporal · April 6, 1969
- RICHARD THOMAS WARNERPrivate First Class · April 6, 1969
- DAVID ROGER WIGGINSSergeant · April 6, 1969
Same unit, same day
- EDWARD FRANKLIN AYERSStaff Sergeant · Panel 27W, Line 23
- CHARLES OTIS OLIVERPrivate · Panel 27W, Line 26
From Yanceyville
- KENNETH EARL WADESpecialist Four · February 23, 1969
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.