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JOHN WOODROW OSBORNE
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
August 7, 1947 – April 30, 1969
Service recordJohn Woodrow Osborne, of Traphill, North Carolina, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 30, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 26W, Line 86 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26W · Line 86
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Cannon Crewmember (13B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- B BTRY 3 BN 18 ARTY I FF
- Born
- August 7, 1947
- Home of record
- Traphill, North Carolina (Wilkes County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 30, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date April 30, 1969; 22 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “B BTRY 3 BN 18 ARTY I FF”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 26W, Line 86
- MICHAEL ESPY METOYERLance Corporal · April 30, 1969
- MICHAEL MIRANDAPrivate First Class · April 30, 1969
- ESPIRIDION PEREZLance Corporal · April 30, 1969
- DAVID PAUL ROYPrivate First Class · April 30, 1969
Same unit, same day
- PHILLIP WAYNE FLANNIGANPrivate First Class · Panel 26W, Line 83
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.