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Death:
Nov. 1, 1969
Tam Kỳ, Vietnam

John, the son of John Edward Vandenberg Sr. and Bertha Anne Vandenberg of Grand Rapids MI, enlisted in the US Navy on April 27, 1966 in Detroit MI.

Arriving in Vietnam, HM2 Vandenberg was assigned to H&S Company, attached to Company I, 3d Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st MARDIV (Rein) FMF.

In the early morning hours a figure was spotted outside the Company I perimeter southwest of Hill 270 and was challenged by a sentry, he did not respond to the challenge and appeared ducking behind some brush. The sentry opened fire at the dark figure, a subsequent search of the area revealed that HM2 Vandenberg, a USN Corpsman had sustained mortal wounds to his head, from the sentry's rifle fire.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of John Edward Jr Vandenberg

Adrian Vandenberg
1889-1974
Susan Andre
1894-1971
(Not public)

John Edward Jr Vandenberg
1945-1969


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    Birthday June 19, 1945

    • The temperature on June 19, 1945 was between 7.4 °C and 25.7 °C and averaged 18.4 °C. There was 14.5 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
    • In The Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
    • From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
    • In the year 1945: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 9.2 million citizens.
      • February 4 » World War II: The British Indian Army and Imperial Japanese Army begin a series of battles known as the Battle of Pokoku and Irrawaddy River operations.
      • February 14 » World War II: Navigational error leads to the mistaken bombing of Prague, Czechoslovakia by an American squadron of B-17s assisting in the Soviet's Vistula–Oder Offensive.
      • May 1 » World War II: Up to 2,500 people die in a mass suicide in Demmin following the advance of the Red Army.
      • May 6 » World War II: Axis Sally delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allied troops.
      • May 23 » World War II: Heinrich Himmler, head of the Schutzstaffel, commits suicide while in Allied custody.
      • August 6 » World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.

    Day of death November 1, 1969

    • The temperature on November 1, 1969 was between 9.2 °C and 12.7 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (18%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1969: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 12.8 million citizens.
      • March 3 » Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
      • April 4 » Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.
      • April 17 » Communist Party of Czechoslovakia chairman Alexander Dubček is deposed.
      • July 24 » Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
      • August 7 » Richard Nixon appoints Luis R. Bruce, a Mohawk-Oglala Sioux and co-founder of the National Congress of American Indians, as the new commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
      • October 29 » The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
    

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