American War Hero · Persian Gulf, Iraq, and Afghanistan · Notice Nearby
Wikimedia Commons — File:Technical Sergeant John Chapman.jpg (Public domain; U.S. Air Force / PD-USGov-Military-Air Force)
John Allan Chapman
July 14, 1965 – March 4, 2002
Born Springfield, Massachusetts
Died Takur Ghor, Paktia Province, Afghanistan (KIA)
Technical Sergeant, U.S. Air Force; 24th Special Tactics Squadron — Battle of Takur Ghor (Roberts Ridge), March 4, 2002 (Medal of Honor, posthumous)
John A. Chapman was a combat controller with the 24th Special Tactics Squadron when Operation Anaconda put his team on Takur Ghor on March 4, 2002. After the helicopter insertion went wrong and Navy SEAL Neil Roberts fell, Chapman advanced alone against enemy positions on the ridge, clearing bunkers under fire before he was killed. The Medal of Honor citation (upgraded and presented in 2018) and Air Force after-action records fix the date, peak, and unit — not invention.
Connecticut upbringing and prior special tactics deployments fill earlier folders. This register lists Takur Ghor: March 4, 2002, posthumous Medal of Honor. Chapman is buried in Connecticut; the official U.S. Air Force portrait on Wikimedia Commons is public domain. He is accounted for — not missing.
- Publication
- NN-HERO-2002-001
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