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Glenna Goodacre’s Vietnam Women’s Memorial, dedicated 11 November 1993. Photo: Karen Cutter, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Elizabeth Ann Jones.

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ELIZABETH ANN JONES

Second Lieutenant · U.S. Army

September 12, 1943 – February 18, 1966

Service record

Elizabeth Ann Jones, of Allendale, South Carolina, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. She died on February 18, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 22. Her name is inscribed on Panel 5E, Line 47 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 5E · Line 47

Position of Panel 5E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Second Lieutenant (2LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Born
September 12, 1943
Home of record
Allendale, South Carolina (Allendale County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 18, 1966
Age
22
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

30 names on the Wall carry the date February 18, 1966. In February 1966, 513 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 5E, Line 47

From Allendale

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 her yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.