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MEADDOW JOHN OLSON
First Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps
April 15, 1945 – April 22, 1969
Service recordMeaddow John Olson, of Mt Olive, Illinois, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 22, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 26W, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26W · Line 26
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1STLT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Basic Infantry Officer (0301)
- Born
- April 15, 1945
- Home of record
- Mt Olive, Illinois (Macoupin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 22, 1969
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date April 22, 1969; seven of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 26W, Line 26
- GUADALUPE FLORESCorporal · April 22, 1969
- THOMAS WAYNE LENZLance Corporal · April 22, 1969
- DALLAS ERVIN MCKINNEY JRSpecialist Four · April 22, 1969
- RICHARD MCNEALPrivate First Class · April 22, 1969
From Mt Olive
- BERNARD LEE FRANKESergeant · May 24, 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.