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EASON JASPER MAXEY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
June 24, 1948 – November 1, 1968
Service recordEason Jasper Maxey, of Newark, New Jersey, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 1, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 39W, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39W · Line 3
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)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- June 24, 1948
- Home of record
- Newark, New Jersey (Essex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 1, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
67 names on the Wall carry the date November 1, 1968; two of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 11 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 39W, Line 3
- DENNIS KENNETH OCONNORSergeant · November 1, 1968
- DANIEL CHARLES PATTERSONPrivate First Class · November 1, 1968
- RODNEY WALTER PETERSPetty Officer First Class · November 1, 1968
- MARVIN NORBERT PROPSONSpecialist Four · November 1, 1968
Same unit, same day
- GARY LEONARD DAUCHPrivate First Class · Panel 40W, Line 74
From Newark
- KELLY KARL HEINZEStaff Sergeant · August 24, 1965
- LEROY WILLIAMS JRPrivate First Class · October 3, 1965
- RICHARD BURGANSPrivate First Class · October 5, 1965
- SCIP TATESpecialist Four · November 8, 1965
- ROBERT GOINESSergeant · December 5, 1965
- JOHN PRESTON GREENESpecialist Four · December 5, 1965
- WESTOVEL VENABLEPrivate First Class · January 25, 1966
- ROY RANSOM ALLENPrivate First Class · March 21, 1966
- ARNOLD WOODSONSpecialist Four · April 5, 1966
- DONALD EDWIN SIEGWARTHLieutenant (junior grade) · June 17, 1966
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.