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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of George Allen Jones JR.

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GEORGE ALLEN JONES JR

Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps

January 7, 1946 – January 18, 1967

Service record

George Allen Jones JR, of Houston, Texas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 18, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 48 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 14E · Line 48

Position of Panel 14E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Marine Corps
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
M60a1 Tank Crewman (1811)
Born
January 7, 1946
Home of record
Houston, Texas (Harris County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 18, 1967
Age
21
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Infectious Disease

Context · from the records

What was happening

24 names on the Wall carry the date January 18, 1967; two of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In January 1967, 638 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 14E, Line 48

From Houston

All 358 names from Houston →

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.