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HALCOTT PRIDE JONES JR
Petty Officer Second Class · U.S. Navy
August 25, 1944 – January 8, 1968
Service recordHalcott Pride Jones JR, of Atlanta, Georgia, served as a Petty Officer Second Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on January 8, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 33E, Line 87 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 33E · Line 87
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Second Class (PO2)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Born
- August 25, 1944
- Home of record
- Atlanta, Georgia (Fulton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 8, 1968
- Age
- 23
- 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
- JAROLD EDWARD HUMPHREYPrivate First Class · January 8, 1968
- DONNEY LYRCE JACKSONPetty Officer Third Class · January 8, 1968
- BOBBY W JOBESergeant · January 8, 1968
- BOBBY RAY JONESPrivate First Class · January 8, 1968
From Atlanta
- DAVID NIPPERLance Corporal · November 21, 1964
- JAMES ANTHONY COYAirman First Class · June 11, 1965
- JAMES THARPE BROWN JRPrivate First Class · June 25, 1965
- WESLIE DAVID MEWBORNPetty Officer First Class · September 8, 1964
- DOUGLAS HORACE LEACHSpecialist Four · November 15, 1965
- RONNIE THOMAS MATHISSergeant · November 17, 1965
- GEORGE S MCHELLONSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
- JAMES CARL WISE JRMajor · December 23, 1965
- CLIFFORD THOMAS JOHNSONPrivate · January 29, 1966
- HARVEY LEWIS BOWEN JRPrivate First Class · February 24, 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.