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JON WALTER LAYTON III
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
October 14, 1947 – June 27, 1968
Service recordJon Walter Layton III, of Mcminnville, Oregon, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 27, 1968, in Kien Phong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 54W, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 54W · Line 6
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- October 14, 1947
- Home of record
- Mcminnville, Oregon (Yamhill County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 27, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Kien Phong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
15 names on the Wall carry the date June 27, 1968; two of them were lost in Kien Phong Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 54W, Line 6
- CHARLES A GORDONPrivate First Class · June 27, 1968
- BENNIE EDWARD HODGESSergeant First Class · June 27, 1968
- MANUEL TORRES LOPEZSergeant First Class · June 27, 1968
- DAVID WILLIAM ROBERTSONSergeant · June 27, 1968
Same unit, same day
- MANUEL TORRES LOPEZSergeant First Class · Panel 54W, Line 6
From Mcminnville
- MICHAEL GLENN TURNERLance Corporal · April 21, 1968
- ROGER WILLIAM SHIPLEYSergeant · June 6, 1968
- RICHARD EUGENE TRASTERPrivate First Class · August 30, 1968
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.