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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Darrell Asa Jackson.

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DARRELL ASA JACKSON

Private First Class · U.S. Army

April 24, 1946 – October 14, 1966

Service record

Darrell Asa Jackson, of Clarkston, Washington, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 14, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 11E, Line 74 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 11E · Line 74

Position of Panel 11E 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. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
Unit (as recorded)
11 ARMORED CAV
Born
April 24, 1946
Home of record
Clarkston, Washington (Asotin County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 14, 1966
Age
20
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

12 names on the Wall carry the date October 14, 1966. In October 1966, 516 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 11E, Line 74

From Clarkston

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.