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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Horace Jones.

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HORACE JONES

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

September 26, 1945 – January 5, 1969

Service record

Horace Jones, of Iva, South Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 5, 1969, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 35W, Line 39 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 35W · Line 39

Position of Panel 35W 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. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
198 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
September 26, 1945
Home of record
Iva, South Carolina (Anderson County)

Casualty

Date of death
January 5, 1969
Age
23
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

21 names on the Wall carry the date January 5, 1969; four of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 28 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 35W, Line 39

Same unit, same day

From Iva

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.