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JACK ALVIN CORN
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
August 21, 1947 – October 22, 1968
Service recordJack Alvin Corn, of Ranger, Georgia, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on October 22, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 40W, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40W · Line 18
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 Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Medium Helicopter Repairer (67U)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 205 AHC 222 AVN BN 12 AVN GRP 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- August 21, 1947
- Home of record
- Ranger, Georgia (Gordon County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 22, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date October 22, 1968; two of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 40W, Line 18
- DENNIS REED CAINPrivate First Class · October 22, 1968
- ARTHUR JACK CARLPrivate First Class · October 22, 1968
- RODNEY RENE CHASTANTCaptain · October 22, 1968
- FREDERICK E HARRINGTON JRCorporal · October 22, 1968
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.