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DAVID RUSSELL JONES
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
August 10, 1949 – February 9, 1968
Service recordDavid Russell Jones, of Spring Valley, California, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 9, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 38E, Line 53 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38E · Line 53
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Lance Corporal (LCPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- August 10, 1949
- Home of record
- Spring Valley, California (San Diego County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 9, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
107 names on the Wall carry the date February 9, 1968; 21 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Huế was under way. At Huế (31 January–2 March 1968), Marines, soldiers of the 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne divisions and South Vietnamese troops fought house to house for 26 days to retake the old imperial capital, the longest urban battle of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 38E, Line 53
- GARY C JONESFirst Lieutenant · February 9, 1968
- MARK SAMUEL KAYESpecialist Four · February 9, 1968
- RONALD NORMAN KELLERPetty Officer Third Class · February 9, 1968
- MICHAEL GEORGE KINDREDPrivate First Class · February 9, 1968
From Spring Valley
- DAVID ANDREW DILLONSpecialist Four · July 20, 1966
- RICHARD WENDAL HOMUTHLieutenant · May 23, 1967
- JOHN CHARLES SEAMAN JRPrivate First Class · March 18, 1968
- KELLY WAYNE WEITZELPrivate First Class · February 23, 1969
- MICHAEL NICHOLAS MASUENWarrant Officer 1 · August 21, 1969
- RONALD GENE LAUDERDALEPrivate First Class · November 12, 1969
- JAMES DAVID ANELLACorporal · March 5, 1970
- NICHOLAS WHITTIER VROOMANSpecialist Four · May 24, 1970
- PETER MITCHELL LOPEZ JRSpecialist Four · February 25, 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.