Jakovac, John Andrew Army Staff sergeant

John Andrew Jakovac, age 20, from Detroit, Michigan, Wayne county.

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: May 31, 1967
Death details: On February 6, 1997, the Joint Task Force-Full Accounting (JTF-FA, now DPAA) identified the remains of Sergeant First Class John Andrew Jakovac, missing from the Vietnam War.
Sergeant First Class Jakovac joined the U.S. Army from Michigan and was a member of the 50th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. On May 31, 1967, he was a member of a long-range reconnaissance patrol in Quang Ngai Province, Vietnam. The patrol was ambushed by enemy forces, and SFC Jakovac was killed in the incident. A search team sent to the patrol’s location did not find SFC Jakovac’s remains. In 1994, a joint U.S. and Vietnamese search team excavated a burial site associated with SFC Jakovac’s loss, and recovered remains there. In February of 1997, some of the recovered remains were identified as those of SFC Jakovac.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency