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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Jack Dewayne Tuggle JR.

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JACK DEWAYNE TUGGLE JR

Sergeant · U.S. Army

July 31, 1949 – April 17, 1970

Service record

Jack Dewayne Tuggle JR, of Valparaiso, Florida, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 17, 1970, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 11W, Line 19 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 11W · Line 19

Position of Panel 11W 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
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Clerk-Typist (71B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
July 31, 1949
Home of record
Valparaiso, Florida (Okaloosa County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 17, 1970
Age
20
Province
Bien Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

19 names on the Wall carry the date April 17, 1970; ten of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In April 1970, 730 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 60 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 11W, Line 19

Same unit, same day

From Valparaiso

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.