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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Aaron Burr Jones JR.

The Wall › Panel 14E › North Carolina › Aaron Burr Jones JR

AARON BURR JONES JR

Private · U.S. Marine Corps

April 19, 1948 – January 13, 1967

Service record

Aaron Burr Jones JR, of Wilmington, North Carolina, served as a Private in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 13, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 14E · Line 22

Position of Panel 14E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Private (PVT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Engineer Equipment Operator (1345)
Born
April 19, 1948
Home of record
Wilmington, North Carolina (New Hanover County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 13, 1967
Age
18
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

33 names on the Wall carry the date January 13, 1967; eight of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 14E, Line 22

From Wilmington

All 24 names from Wilmington →

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.