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COLIN FRANK JACKSON
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 23, 1948 – May 18, 1967
Service recordColin Frank Jackson, of Thousand Oaks, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 18, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20E · Line 29
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Mortarman (0341)
- Born
- January 23, 1948
- Home of record
- Thousand Oaks, California (Ventura County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 18, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
94 names on the Wall carry the date May 18, 1967; 38 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 20E, Line 29
- JOHN WAYNE HUDGENSSpecialist Four · May 18, 1967
- EDWARD CHARLES HULTQUISTPrivate First Class · May 18, 1967
- HUGH LARRY HURSTONSpecialist Five · May 18, 1967
- STANLEY MICHAEL JAMROZYSpecialist Four · May 18, 1967
From Thousand Oaks
- JOHN CLARENCE SHAMELLance Corporal · June 15, 1967
- LARRY ALLAN JONESLance Corporal · April 24, 1968
- CHARLES IVAN DEGRAWSergeant · November 5, 1968
- DAVID EARL FARRPrivate First Class · January 26, 1970
- ERIC JAMES HUBERTHCaptain · May 13, 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.