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A Navy corpsman treats a wounded Marine of H Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, in Huế, February 1968.
A Navy corpsman treats a wounded Marine of H Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, in Huế, February 1968. Photo: Sgt. William F. Dickman, USMC, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Donney Lyrce Jackson.

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DONNEY LYRCE JACKSON

Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy

June 15, 1946 – January 8, 1968

Service record

Donney Lyrce Jackson, of Los Angeles, California, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on January 8, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 33E, Line 87 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 33E · Line 87

Position of Panel 33E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Hospital Corpsman (HM)
Unit (as recorded)
4 BN 12 MAR
Born
June 15, 1946
Home of record
Los Angeles, California (Los Angeles County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 8, 1968
Age
21
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

101 names on the Wall carry the date January 8, 1968; 43 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 33E, Line 87

From Los Angeles

All 540 names from Los Angeles →

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.