John Henry Garner

Vietnam War
UnitHeadquarters and Service Company 1st Battalion 1st Mar Div
RankHospital Corpsman Third Class U.S. Navy
Entered Service FromCharleston Height South Carolina
Date of DeathMay 29 1967
StatusMissing In Action
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
B
Notes
Hospital Corpsman Third Class Garner was a member of Headquarters and Service Company 1st Battalion 1st Marine Division. On May 29, 1967, while on a search and destroy mission on a river patrol boat in South Vietnam, his boat came under fire and overturned. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.