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JOHNNY SALAS TAITAGUE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 3, 1947 – April 22, 1968
Service recordJohnny Salas Taitague, of Talofofo, Guam, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 22, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 51E, Line 34 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 51E · Line 34
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- August 3, 1947
- Home of record
- Talofofo, Guam (Guam County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 22, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
38 names on the Wall carry the date April 22, 1968; two of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 110 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 51E, Line 34
- THURMAN TRACY WALLSCorporal · April 22, 1968
- EDWARD EUGENE WHALENPrivate First Class · April 22, 1968
- ROBERT RANDOLPH WHITE JRPrivate First Class · April 22, 1968
- WALTER RIDGEWAY WINDER JRSpecialist Four · April 22, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT RANDOLPH WHITE JRPrivate First Class · Panel 51E, Line 34
From Talofofo
- ERNEST PABLO SANTOSPrivate First Class · June 21, 1967
- DAVID ATOIGUE GORTONSpecialist Four · November 15, 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.