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JONATHAN ANSEL SAWYER
Hospitalman · U.S. Navy
January 27, 1949 – July 2, 1967
Service recordJonathan Ansel Sawyer, of Boothbay Harbor, Maine, served as a Hospitalman in the U.S. Navy. He died on July 2, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 22E, Line 114 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 22E · Line 114
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
- Hospitalman (HN)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- HS CO 1 BN 9 MAR 3 MARDIV
- Born
- January 27, 1949
- Home of record
- Boothbay Harbor, Maine (Lincoln County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 2, 1967
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
127 names on the Wall carry the date July 2, 1967; 93 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “HS CO 1 BN 9 MAR 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 9 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 22E, Line 114
- JACK RAYMOND RUSHLance Corporal · July 2, 1967
- JOHN DOMINICK SALMIERISpecialist Four · July 2, 1967
- STANLEY SANDERSSergeant · July 2, 1967
- FRANK W SAWYER JRCorporal · July 2, 1967
Same unit, same day
- PHILIP HOWELL CONVERSEHospitalman · Panel 22E, Line 99
- HECTOR FUENTESHospitalman · Panel 22E, Line 102
- EDWARD ROBERT LOZANOHospitalman · Panel 22E, Line 108
- CHRISTOPHER J MAGUIRE IIIPetty Officer Second Class · Panel 22E, Line 108
- STEPHEN ALBERT MENSHEKHospitalman · Panel 22E, Line 109
- THOMAS MICHAEL THOMPSONCorporal · Panel 22E, Line 117
From Boothbay Harbor
- GORDON EDMUND TIBBETTSSergeant · March 26, 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.