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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 Arthur Russell Jansen.

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ARTHUR RUSSELL JANSEN

Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

July 10, 1946 – January 24, 1968

Service record

Arthur Russell Jansen, of Rome, New York, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 24, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 23 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 35E · Line 23

Position of Panel 35E 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. Marine Corps
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Motor Vehicle Operator (3531)
Born
July 10, 1946
Home of record
Rome, New York (Oneida County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 24, 1968
Age
21
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

46 names on the Wall carry the date January 24, 1968; four of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 35E, Line 23

From Rome

All 12 names from Rome →

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.