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DENNY MILBURN JACKSON
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
February 5, 1947 – January 31, 1968
Service recordDenny Milburn Jackson, of Santa Paula, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 31, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 36E, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36E · Line 17
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- February 5, 1947
- Home of record
- Santa Paula, California (Ventura County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 31, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
246 names on the Wall carry the date January 31, 1968; 66 of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 12 of its members that month.
He died in Gia Dinh Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 36E, Line 17
- ROBERT ANDREW HUIECorporal · January 31, 1968
- ABRAHAM JACKSONStaff Sergeant · January 31, 1968
- RICHARD ALBERT JACKSONStaff Sergeant · January 31, 1968
- ROBERT WILEY JENKINSPrivate First Class · January 31, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ALFRED JOHN LEWISPrivate First Class · Panel 36E, Line 2
- FLETCHER LEON LEWISSpecialist Four · Panel 36E, Line 4
- RICHARD WALKER HARPERFirst Lieutenant · Panel 36E, Line 12
- ALLEN LANE WINTERSSpecialist Four · Panel 36E, Line 43
From Santa Paula
- MAX V VASQUEZ IIIPrivate First Class · June 10, 1966
- EDUARDO CHAVEZPrivate First Class · November 21, 1966
- JUAN JOSEPH DEMARACorporal · March 5, 1968
- DANIEL JACQUES BOTTANPrivate First Class · August 29, 1968
- DENNIS MEVES KEITHSpecialist Four · February 6, 1969
- TIMOTHY ELTON LARMONPrivate First Class · October 21, 1969
- JIM RAY CAVENDERChief Warrant Officer 3 · November 4, 1969
- LONNIE DEE FOLEYStaff Sergeant · May 11, 1971
- WILLARD FRANCIS PAYNEStaff Sergeant · August 10, 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.