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JON ROY HONRATH
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 8, 1948 – August 17, 1967
Service recordJon Roy Honrath, of Garden Grove, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 17, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25E · Line 7
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- August 8, 1948
- Home of record
- Garden Grove, California (Orange County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 17, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date August 17, 1967; six of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 50 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 25E, Line 7
- CHARLES DAVID HOMLieutenant (junior grade) · August 17, 1967
- RONALD JAMES JOHNSONPrivate First Class · August 17, 1967
- WAYNE ELMER JONESChief Warrant Officer 2 · August 17, 1967
- KEITH WARREN F LIVERMOREPrivate First Class · August 17, 1967
Same unit, same day
- RICHARD LOWELL CURDCorporal · Panel 25E, Line 6
From Garden Grove
- CARROLL MONROE BIERMAN JRCorporal · June 4, 1965
- ERNEST DARRELL MITCHELLPrivate First Class · July 20, 1966
- WILLIAM ROBERT PETERSENPrivate First Class · March 31, 1967
- MICHAEL ROY NELSONSpecialist Four · April 9, 1967
- HARVEY RICHARD SANDERSCorporal · May 12, 1967
- JAMES PATRICK FITZSIMMONSLance Corporal · May 18, 1967
- ALLAN GEORGE KALFASLance Corporal · September 2, 1967
- GARY LEE BARKERSergeant · October 17, 1967
- DENNIS REX ESTESPrivate First Class · November 25, 1967
- EDWARD COWART HUGHES IIISpecialist Four · November 27, 1967
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.