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JON RICHARD MORVAY
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
March 17, 1947 – October 23, 1967
Service recordJon Richard Morvay, of Ocean City, New Jersey, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on October 23, 1967, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 28E, Line 56 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28E · Line 56
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Builder (BU)
- Unit (as recorded)
- NMCB 121 3 NC BDE
- Born
- March 17, 1947
- Home of record
- Ocean City, New Jersey (Cape May County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 23, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date October 23, 1967; four of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “NMCB 121 3 NC BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 28E, Line 56
- RODNEY W MCLEANMajor · October 23, 1967
- DEAN HAROLD MESSERSMITHPrivate First Class · October 23, 1967
- CHARLES EDWARD MULLISSpecialist Four · October 23, 1967
- JOSEPH PATRICK PINKSpecialist Four · October 23, 1967
Same unit, same day
- GORDON JOHN DIBBLEChief Petty Officer · Panel 28E, Line 54
From Ocean City
- ROBERT A WOODROWSpecialist Four · July 4, 1967
- JOHN C MARTINFirst Lieutenant · February 24, 1968
- BRUCE MICHAEL MILEYSpecialist Five · October 21, 1968
- CHARLES WESLEY STERLINGStaff Sergeant · March 31, 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.