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An AC-47D “Spooky” gunship fires on a target at night over South Vietnam.
An AC-47D “Spooky” gunship fires on a target at night over South Vietnam. Photo: U.S. Air Force, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Arnold Noel Jaco.

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ARNOLD NOEL JACO

Sergeant · U.S. Air Force

July 7, 1946 – September 6, 1969

Service record

Arnold Noel Jaco, of Benton, Kentucky, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. He died on September 6, 1969, in Thailand, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 18W, Line 47 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 18W · Line 47

Position of Panel 18W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.

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Service

Branch
U.S. Air Force
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Born
July 7, 1946
Home of record
Benton, Kentucky (Marshall County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 6, 1969
Age
23
Country
Thailand
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

35 names on the Wall carry the date September 6, 1969. In September 1969, 664 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The record places this loss in Thailand, outside South Vietnam.

Also on Panel 18W, Line 47

From Benton

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.