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BENNY CHARLES JACKSON
Private First Class · U.S. Army
March 20, 1949 – October 20, 1969
Service recordBenny Charles Jackson, of Wake Forest, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 20, 1969, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 17W, Line 97 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17W · Line 97
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- March 20, 1949
- Home of record
- Wake Forest, North Carolina (Wake County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 20, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
32 names on the Wall carry the date October 20, 1969; two of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In October 1969, 600 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 9 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 17W, Line 97
- WILLIE LEE KEITHSpecialist Four · October 20, 1969
- DENNIS WALTER KIPPPrivate First Class · October 20, 1969
- RICHARD DAVID LEARPrivate First Class · October 20, 1969
- CRAIG THOMAS MARRINGTONSpecialist Four · October 20, 1969
Same unit, same day
- STANLEY DENNIS ROSSSpecialist Four · Panel 17W, Line 98
From Wake Forest
- RONNIE MARSHALL DUNCANPrivate First Class · October 10, 1965
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.