The Wall › Panel 7W › Georgia › Brian Edward Jay
BRIAN EDWARD JAY
Private First Class · U.S. Army
July 15, 1951 – August 29, 1970
Service recordBrian Edward Jay, of Douglasville, Georgia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 29, 1970, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 7W, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 7W · Line 22
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.
Remember
Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.
Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- July 15, 1951
- Home of record
- Douglasville, Georgia (Douglas County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 29, 1970
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
16 names on the Wall carry the date August 29, 1970; six of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In August 1970, 452 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 41 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 7W, Line 22
- DANIEL LAWRENCE GROVERPrivate First Class · August 29, 1970
- HARRY THOMAS HENTHORNPrivate First Class · August 29, 1970
- CECIL JACKSON JRSpecialist Five · August 29, 1970
- MARK WENDELL MINEARWarrant Officer 1 · August 29, 1970
Same unit, same day
- HARRY THOMAS HENTHORNPrivate First Class · Panel 7W, Line 22
- MARK WENDELL MINEARWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 7W, Line 22
- HOWARD EUGENE SATTERFIELDSpecialist Five · Panel 7W, Line 23
- LAWRENCE ELWOOD SCHEIB JRSpecialist Four · Panel 7W, Line 23
- JOHN FREDERICK SHIEFERFirst Lieutenant · Panel 7W, Line 23
From Douglasville
- ROBERT GERALD HUNTERFirst Lieutenant · May 25, 1966
- ROBERT PAUL TIDWELLFirst Lieutenant · April 29, 1969
- MELVIN JOHNSONPrivate First Class · May 9, 1969
- DAVID BEAVERS WOODFirst Lieutenant · April 26, 1971
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.