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A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter.
A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter. Photo: SP4 James B. Egan, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Arthur James Jackson.

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ARTHUR JAMES JACKSON

Private First Class · U.S. Army

August 25, 1941 – February 28, 1966

Service record

Arthur James Jackson, of Los Angeles, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on February 28, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 5E, Line 86 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 5E · Line 86

Position of Panel 5E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Medical Specialist (91B)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
August 25, 1941
Home of record
Los Angeles, California (Los Angeles County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 28, 1966
Age
24
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

41 names on the Wall carry the date February 28, 1966. In February 1966, 513 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 59 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 5E, Line 86

From Los Angeles

All 540 names from Los Angeles →

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.