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A Navy corpsman treats a wounded Marine of H Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, in Huế, February 1968.
A Navy corpsman treats a wounded Marine of H Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, in Huế, February 1968. Photo: Sgt. William F. Dickman, USMC, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Jose Antonio Ollivier.

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JOSE ANTONIO OLLIVIER

Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy

November 30, 1944 – February 23, 1969

Service record

Jose Antonio Ollivier, of Covina, California, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on February 23, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 31W, Line 14 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 31W · Line 14

Position of Panel 31W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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 Second Class (PO2)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Hospital Corpsman (HM)
Born
November 30, 1944
Home of record
Covina, California (Los Angeles County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 23, 1969
Age
24
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

209 names on the Wall carry the date February 23, 1969; 83 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 31W, Line 14

From Covina

All 20 names from Covina →

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.