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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN JACKSON
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 13, 1949 – March 13, 1970
Service recordBenjamin Franklin Jackson, of Darlington, South Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 13, 1970, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 13W, Line 122 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 13W · Line 122
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. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- October 13, 1949
- Home of record
- Darlington, South Carolina (Darlington County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 13, 1970
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
19 names on the Wall carry the date March 13, 1970; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1970, 625 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 77 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 13W, Line 122
- STEPHEN BRUCE BOEHNEStaff Sergeant · March 13, 1970
- ROBERT HENRY GOOSENSpecialist Four · March 13, 1970
- LARRY DON KNIPPELStaff Sergeant · March 13, 1970
- FLOYD BARNEY LOCKHART JRPrivate First Class · March 13, 1970
From Darlington
- WALTER WAYNE LEWISLance Corporal · November 6, 1967
- LEROY JEFFERSONStaff Sergeant · December 20, 1967
- JAMES JOSEPHLance Corporal · January 7, 1968
- HARLEY FRANKLIN GRIGGSStaff Sergeant · April 23, 1968
- WILLIAM ARNOLD NORWOODCorporal · March 16, 1970
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.